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shilangyu

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About shilangyu

Computer science, math, and everything in between. Exploring programming languages. https://github.com/shilangyu

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    Comment #44578953

    PCRE2 supports only bounded length lookbehinds. It is true, it is not a big improvement to have unbounded ones in rust-lang/regex, but it still feels like something.

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    Comment #44575978

    As others have pointed out, the regex engine is the same so the benefits would trickle downstream. For example, VSCode also uses ripgrep and therefore the rust-lang/regex engine.

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    Comment #37542285

    > I am tired of writing my own print functions for random objects when debugging because the API developers did not bother to override the Won't you face the same problem in Rust? …

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    Comment #37431236

    The world record average is 4.48s and it's held by... a 9 year old.

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    Comment #37431167

    Roux while still very much an underdog is gaining popularity as the method for one handed (OH) solves. The 2023 world champion of OH used roux to gain this title. I even heard of c…

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    Comment #36702328

    Originally when teased at Google IO this product was called project tailwind but the URL was thoughtful.sandbox.google.com (it seems to now redirect to the notebooklm URL). "Though…

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    Comment #36087537

    Except it's made by the same person

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    Comment #35788332

    Nice example! Indeed, this language has a few interesting equivalent problem statements.

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    Comment #35626598

    I don't know why I thought Go generics also do monomorphization, must've misremembered or it was an earlier proposal? Thanks for the correction!

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    Comment #35625974

    > In Go, I found that using an interface was not free: it can make the code slower. The Go version that was presented isn't equivalent though. In Go you are accepting an interface …

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    Comment #34901675

    I would like to delve into the compatibility with tree-sitter, since in other features tree-sitter being under the hood is mostly an implementation detail: If I were to write my pa…

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    Comment #34898782

    Are there any benefits for users that tree-sitter is used under the hood? Can we benefit from the killer features of tree-sitter? Namely incremental parsing, fallible parsing, loss…