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I once heard that an editor spends the majority of its time in an error state, and only periodically someone stops typing in hopefully(!) a valid state. Thinkin

I once heard that an editor spends the majority of its time in an error state, and only periodically someone stops typing in hopefully(!) a valid state. Thinking how to generate helpful recovery states in an ide's parser sounds like an incredible amount of work

dmitriid 4y ago
> Thinking how to generate helpful recovery states in an ide's parser sounds like an incredible amount of work It is. Error recovery is one of the biggest issues precisely for the reason you mentioned :)