Wilfred
wilfredh.bsky.social
Wilfred
@wilfredh.bsky.social
Programming languages, human factors, and a healthy dose of Emacs.
I've added syntax highlighting to the prompt of my programming language!

It's not strictly necessary, but it's nice to have. It caught a bug with lexing incomplete string literals too.
October 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I'm still experimenting with UIs for live (sandboxed) evaluation of tests. I've realised that you really want to highlight the failing assertion, not just the failing test.

Feedback welcome :)
June 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I'm experimenting with live-evaluating tests in my programming language project.

It's relatively fiddly to hook up a UI for this, but it saves a precious keystroke to run the tests! I'm hoping that it results in more, better tests due to the convenience.
February 3, 2025 at 4:31 AM