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When I see amazingly compact language implementations like this, the effect on me is not 'I want to use this language' but rather 'I should also write my own LI

• tjoff 3y ago
  I misread it as 'I should write my own LSP [for that language]', which might be neat project too!
  • stevekemp 3y ago
    I wrote a lisp, a while back, and then later added an LSP for it. Since lisp is so simple in terms of syntax what I really did was tab-completion, and info-on-hover, for the built-in functions like "car", "cdr", and the primitives I added as part of a more complex standard-library. In my case I was writing in go and I found an LSP-server package which was trivial to use. So getting the integration with emacs, vim, etc, was really trivial: https://github.com/tliron/glsp https://github.com/tliron/glsp
• ranger_danger 3y ago
  Strange effect however I kinda felt it too. But alas `#include <setjmp.h>` here be dragons.
  • mananaysiempre 3y ago
    Unless you want half your C logic to be error propagation, it’ll have to be <setjmp.h>, all its flaws notwithstanding. Manual unwinding can be done tastefully (see Tcl), but in the single-digit-KLOC weight class it’s not really a choice.
  • fsckboy 3y ago
    while we're marvelling about how small and compact it is, then just replace them (with something uglier and less performant), it's not rocket science