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4:27:13
drmeister
Using supplied-p arguments and having three different versions of the call to read would certainly work - but it seems complicated.
4:30:10
beach
It is sufficiently general that it should be documented and tested separately. At least I think so.
4:31:22
drmeister
Do you think the reader and cst-to-ast is sufficiently complete that I could use them to replace read/generate-ast?
4:32:17
beach
And there are some things missing that exists in Generate-AST, but nothing that prevents it from working.
4:32:56
drmeister
Bike suggested that some of the methods I wrote for generate-ast might need to be converted to cst-to-ast.
4:34:07
drmeister
Sooner rather than later - I'd like to use it to replace generate-ast and then work source tracking in.
4:35:35
drmeister
When people talk about "tooling" being important in their use of a programming language - do you know what they mean?
5:11:27
loke
In the Javascript world, a big part of the tooling is NPM (which appens to be terrible, but it's still important to them)
5:12:31
loke
The big thing these days are tools that handle all dependencies, building, code generation, testing etc... Preferably in a single tool that no one can understand and that is configured using cargo-culted copy&paste, and where solving problem involves asking on Stackoverflow... Case in point: Gradle
5:14:02
loke
It could become just as awful as NPM. All it would take is 20 or so hipster code ninjas.
15:14:40
Bike
o-k, i'm pretty much set up for fast method calls except i don't know how to codegen the actual call.
15:55:01
ecraven
I'm not an expert, but I think npm is more of an example of how to *not* do things than anything else... there's been another incident recently with deleted packages that were re-uploaded by someone else. there's no verification of the source, so people would just have pulled that
15:57:39
Shinmera
The whole web ecosystem is a mess that you can't trust a single bit of: https://hackernoon.com/im-harvesting-credit-card-numbers-and-passwords-from-your-site-here-s-how-9a8cb347c5b5