That'll do it. If you don't want to use the #lang for anything but slides, then this might be overkill relative to just writing some regexps to dump a highlighted picture out of a string.
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Might be good procrastination material for my next talk! At least I'd learn more about Racket's language implementation stuff! Always wanted to have an excuse to learn. 🤔
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You can also go completely over the top like I did for ICFP 16 and have your compiler talk to your slides over a socket for a mini ide in the slides...
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Hah, I liked that one! Where you showed off Pie? Looked super nice.
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This one was Idris: m.youtube.com/watch?v=pqFgYC
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Pie runs in-process, no need for the socket
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Yeah, I thought that seemed extravagant! 😂
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If you write your type checkers and slides in the same language, it makes that kind of trick easy!
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Perhaps I need to make a Rust slideshow tool....
(nooo, this is the path to the dark side...)
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A slideshow that talked to RLS would be about a day's work, I think. Maybe 3 if you've never done Racket GUI programming before.
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Oh, this is for my own language, Pikelet, which is implemented in Rust. It does not yet have a language server, alas (on the roadmap, hehe). Will be wanting to do a presentation at some stage, so preparing tools before the last minute is always handy!
You should rig up the compiler to dump highlighting info. If it's fast enough, you can highlight slides or editors with a simple command line tool.
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Oh lovely, that's a much better idea! Thanks! :)
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