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mdaniel on Oct 12, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: JetBrains invites developers to join the Fleet Pub...

I once heard that an editor spends the majority of its time in an error state, and only periodically someone stops typing in hopefully(!) a valid state. Thinking how to generate helpful recovery states in an ide's parser sounds like an incredible amount of work

dmitriid on Oct 13, 2022 [–]

> Thinking how to generate helpful recovery states in an ide's parser sounds like an incredible amount of work

It is. Error recovery is one of the biggest issues precisely for the reason you mentioned :)

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