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Use a keyword, it’ll make your life a lot easier for parsing. If you’re reluctant on using “enum” as a keyword, you should check out OCaml/ML’s “type” keyword (they are the exact same contept: ADTs, but rust weirdly associates them with enums)

Don’t use magic strings! Not only is this hard to check for errors while writing code, you also can’t tell easily if it is a normal string, or an enum.

In my old project, my syntax looked like this:

// Flavour and vec of ingredients
type Food[T] {
  | Pizza str, vec[T]
  | Cake str, vec[T]
  | Soup vec[T]
}

not only is this easy to parse, i’d say it sticks true to its ML roots. You should check odin’s enum syntax if you’re keen on making a unique syntax.

You should go read a history book before speaking.

I have. And yeah slavery existed just like everywhere, where do i deny that in my comment? You said that seeing a white dude with a child sex slave is some common thing.

We still have widely practiced modern slavery in the gulf and north africa, it’s not like you are uniquely evil. Sounds to me, you are the one that should read a history book ;)

idk about you, but i’ve never seen a white dude with child sex slaves. wtf are you talking about?

And every modern country slaves away for billionaires, what country are you living in that doesn’t?

Nah, he’s probably white himself. I’ve literally never seen anyone online hate white people more than themselves. It’s a weird phenomenon…

You sound like you’re white as fuck

What? what does this mean?

I see. i didn’t know that, thank you.

Nevermind, Val corrected me

I love compiler dev, so i can give you a few tips:

It may be hard to compile to rust, due to the borrow checker; but C or javascript are great first backends, i always go with C for my prototypes.

PS: Don’t go with LLVM early on, it has almost no documentation! it’s not worth it, i learned that the hard way. Even zig replaced their LLVM backend with a C one.

Also some good libraries for rust:

• Lalrpop a parser
• Ariadne a beautiful error logger
• Cranelift Like LLVM (easier though) but written purely in rust

Here’s a great list of libraries that can help with building it: https://github.com/Kixiron/rust-langdev

Good luck with OA :)

That’s pretty cool, was this a practice for actual compiler development? Or for fun, or an actual project?

yeah, i copied the xkcd wrong 🤦‍♂️ thanks, i’ll edit it

int getRandomNumber() {
 return 4; // chosen by a fair dice roll. guaranteed to be random.
}

I agree, neither do i. I was talking about base vscode, but i don’t think it even matters anymore. There’s really no proper answer. Some people use it like a notepad, some people use it like a fully fledged IDE. I’m just tired of arguing over this, and i admit i had a bad take.

Fuck, you got me there.

I didn’t mean it in a bad way. I prefer how vscode does it. and i think you’re right.

I agree. I was mainly thinking of neovim, but i guess vim works in this example, too.

I was talking about the base editor itself, though. In the end it doesn’t even matter what we consider VSCode to be, i feel this thread has just devolved into arguing about semantics and bikeshedding, and there’s no correct solution.

I think i’ll just be deleting my main comment, admit I had a bad take and move on. i’m tired of arguing about this.

Not really. there’s VSCode itself, and then there’s the extensions on top of it. But my main point was how vscode wasn’t designed to be an IDE, just a customizable code editor. Like neovim or emacs, you could customize it to the point of being similar to an IDE, but they’re still not considered IDEs.

I don’t think it really matters, but the implication you can write a whole IDE in electron is just insane.

It is pretty pedantic, i agree. I don’t want to start an argument about something as pointless as this, though.

They also list vim and notepad++ as IDEs, pretty sure they just meant code editors in general.

Fucking NANO is on the list 😂

IDEs come bundled with tooling, such as debuggers, intelligent code completion, and OOTB language support, and language servers.

vscode out of the box doesn’t have any of these, you install them with plugins. jetbrains products, for example would be IDEs, but editors like vscode and neovim aren’t. Those are code editors.

vscode isn’t an IDE, but an actual IDE written in electron would be horrible.

I don’t want to argue about this anymore. I admit i had a bad take, and this whole thread is just arguing about semantics at this point. Does it even really matter if vscode is an IDE or not? If it works, it works.