# Tooling-Aware Language Design with Eli Dowling

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Published: 2024-08-21T09:00:20+00:00
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## Resource

Richard talks with Eli Dowling about his contributions to the Roc programming language, as well as the intersection of language design and editor tooling, parsers that recover from errors, tree-sitter, going beyond the language server protocol, and the downsides of macros. Perceus paper - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2020/11/perceus-tr-v1.pdf The Koka Programming Language - https://koka-lang.github.io "The Quicksort Talk" (Outperforming Imperative with Pure Functional Languages) - https://youtu.be/vzfy4EKwG_Y Tree-Sitter - https://tree-sitter.github.io Neovim Editor - https://neovim.io Helix Editor - https://helix-editor.com Zed Editor - https://zed.dev Language Server Protocol (LSP) - https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol Hygienic Macros - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygienic_macro Rust Macros - https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch19-06-macros.html Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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