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Then there are languages like lisp. If you ask anyone in the community who's drank the s-expression koolaid, they'll say "your editor will take care of it bro,

Then there are languages like lisp. If you ask anyone in the community who's drank the s-expression koolaid, they'll say "your editor will take care of it bro, 12 closing parenthesis are totally fine". But every once in a while you're stuck in an environment with barebone vim, you mess up some editing, the language provides completely unhelpful error messages, and you're stuck debugging a bloody syntax error for 30 minutes. The command line interface of a language should be really good and one should be able to program without any fancy tooling. The compiler shouldn't offload any responsibility to the editor/lsp.

bigpeopleareold 2y ago
Yes, this is true. At this point, I would lean to that and panic. But it's also true that one can have already setup their editor to the REPL of an environment, obviating the need for using other editors and still retaining the type of control one would have in their editor.