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New comment by kfse in "Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST"

kfse — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:26:02 +0000

> Just serialize stuff to text if somebody wants to "edit" and then parse it back when they are done. What happens to the text in between of course is the programmer's problem.

I think that's working against the way that a lot of people write code.

You need things like syntax highlighting and code completion even while typing something like "my_var = " on a line. A normal parser doesn't work here, and bailing out to make it the programmer's problem leaves the programmer with a lot of work

New comment by kfse in "Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST"

kfse — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:09:44 +0000

How does this work in the many cases where in-progress edits result in an unparseable structure?

New comment by kfse in "GPT-5.4"

kfse — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:00:51 +0000

Until it had backup storage. Which ended up being useful in 2011 when tens of thousands of mailboxes were deleted due to a software bug and needed to be recovered from tape...