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[–] mdhughes@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Some languages really do suck so much they're all but unwriteable by plain text, and need constant compiler tree parsing to get right.

But that's an incentive to quit using bad languages. Write in something you can read and write in ed, and you can hold it in your head.