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Rust is a very nice fit for language tooling. It has several features that are particularly useful for syntactic manipulation, like matching, enums, and Result<

by lacker 4y ago

Rust is a very nice fit for language tooling. It has several features that are particularly useful for syntactic manipulation, like matching, enums, and Result<x> error handling. And a focus on efficiency is especially nice for language tooling, because no matter how fast your tools are, a codebase can get big enough to make them annoyingly slow.

hulitu 4y ago
> Rust is a very nice fit for language tooling If only they could fix the toolchain. If version 1.58.0 is so different from 1.58.1 that it cannot compile 1.66 something is terribly wrong. And getting crates from internet is a terrible idea from a security point of view.
- ihatepython 4y ago
  Perhaps the Rust toolchain can be fixed by rewriting it in Javascript?