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I used to think that reading a cryptic error message and not knowing what to do was my fault and that I needed to get better/smarter/more experienced in order to solve issues quickly. Oh boy was I wrong. There is so much that languages can do now to make this way better.

Sunjay

@Sunjay03

Aug 26, 2018

Rust does this and has excellent diagnostics (thank you to the many people who work on that!) I think as people who make languages we have a certain responsibility to make them usable. Yeah, making tools for experts is easier, but making things for everyone is really worthwhile.

Brendan Zabarauskas

@brendanzab

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@Sunjay03

So completely agree with this! Trying to make this easier for other people to add to their own languages with codespan: github.com/brendanzab/cod - still needs lots of work though to reach parity with rustc, but it's my crazy dream that we should have great tooling everywhere!

10:57 AM · Aug 26, 2018Twitter Web Client