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   clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 05:41:40 JST clarity flowers

   I built a language server for my forth-like that supports semantic highlighting.

   It can distinguish between immediate (comptime) words, normal words, assembly words, and numbers, and immediate words can hack into the token parsing to signal different semantic values.

   For example, here I define a new immediate word “\”, which parses until the end of the line using the magic number “3” to mark the parsed text as a comment, and then discards the parsed result.

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     clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 05:47:52 JST clarity flowers

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     the language server protocol is frustrating to build against for a number of reasons (json is a bitch, tons of overhead just to get what amounts of a functional handshake with the server, a very Microsoft™️ insistence on UTF-16 for column positions) but it feels sooooo worth it to have this in a forthlike language where regex-based highlighting is pretty much useless.

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     clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 06:41:51 JST clarity flowers

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     • paul

     @paul oh shoot right, you're the second person who has asked. Lemme throw it up

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     paul (paul@post.lurk.org)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 06:41:53 JST paul

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     @clarity any public repo? I'd love to follow along!

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     clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 08:42:21 JST clarity flowers

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     • paul

     @paul https://git.sr.ht/~clarity/swordlang