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[–] Lightfire228@pawb.social 18 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I literally just wrote this a few hours ago (line 55)

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 7 hours ago

The more insane, unlikely, and catastrophic the error, the more appropriate an insane, terse, apocalyptic error message is.

[–] melvisntnormal@feddit.uk 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

You writing an interpreter/VM? For what language?

[–] Lightfire228@pawb.social 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Lox

Once i have a solid implementation, I wanna morph it into a custom scripting language for generating diagrams (a la graphviz or mermaid js)

https://github.com/Lightfire228/lightweaver

[–] melvisntnormal@feddit.uk 2 points 9 hours ago

I thought as much! Didn't want to assume though just in case. I've gone through that book twice and I want to look at adding types to my implementation. Good luck!