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procaryoteyesterday at 11:25 AM1 replyview on HN

One fundamental deal-breaking problem with structure aware version control is that your vcs now needs to know all the versions of all the languages you're writing in. It gets non-trivial fast.


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conartist6yesterday at 2:09 PM

It does! So extensible parser definition is another key piece of the technological puzzle along with common formats for parse trees.