i kinda agree, there have been multiple times where i've brought up hidden costs and kinda been sidestepped :/ (the breaking change bit also bothers me, rust *already* has issues being stable with larger codebases. firefox has hit this a bunch of times)
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semantic highlighting needs to parse.
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Of all the difficulties involved in doing partial parses of Rust, with error recovery, etc, unbounded lookahead is not even in the top 100.
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most highlighters differentiate between type and variable and function, so you kinda do
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So what? Then they can do the lookahead. What frustrates me about this conversation is that we’re having it in a vacuum without even showing how it would break *specific* editors. It’s just FUD.
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