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We use backticks for escaping keywords like swift does: typespec.io/playground/?... Template literals use 3+ quotes (also like swift I think?)

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Yeah I agree. Just imagining the parser work 😂

How sad would you be if there were some sort of sigil for custom "keywords" like :record Foo { }

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Oh const fields! Yes would be nice.

Yes very embarrassing omission 😭

There is! typespec.io/playground/?...

typespec.io

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You can use jsdoc style comments instead of @doc if you like (tho same restrictions). But if you mean return value of an operation, you might use jsdoc returns as usual, else @returnsDoc. I believe that metadata is attached to the operation.

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We could probably relax the grammar for decorators to allow reserved words, I thought we did that already. I also want custom keywords! It was in some of my original sketches. I think actually important for swiss army knife DSL langs.

Brian Terlson @b.trl.sn · 13/04/2025

This is so cool! TSP was basically born of a distaste for reading another massive json file, it's kind of a niche 😂 If you have typespec thoughts I'd love to hear them, feel free to reach out directly if you like. Also I wonder if you looked at the new emitter framework?

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This type isn't super popular but it also isn't widely available. I've seen a lot of cases where 32bits isn't large enough but approx 53 bits is. In such cases today people generally use int64 and pray no precision loss happens in JS. Something like `z.safeint()` might make more people reach for it.

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Brian Terlson @b.trl.sn · 13/04/2025

Oh is that new Zod 4 behavior? That's not bad. Right now it's `z.number().int().safe()` which isn't super friendly. The name is somewhat confusing, but doubleint is an integer which fits in the safe range of a double.

Brian Terlson @b.trl.sn · 11/04/2025

Nice to see the new number types! Consider adding `doubleint` (OpenAPI Format) or `safeint` (TypeSpec type)? Especially with the JSON Schema conversion throwing by default for int64, this type is super convenient when 32 bits isn't enough but 53 bits is.

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Wictor Wilén @wictorwilen.se · 06/04/2025

Just released v1 of my @typespec.bsky.social JSON samples emitter. 🆕 A handy tool to create samples based on the decorators in your #TypeSpec code. Please give it a try and let me know if you have any feedback or feature requests! 🙏 www.npmjs.com/package/@wic...

Sample of a TypeSpec document and the output as JSON

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Brian Terlson @b.trl.sn · 24/03/2025

I'm confident the rewrite would be much less work if the base library (Alloy) had Go language components, but unfortunately we do not yet. If you are interested you can find the base framework here: github.com/alloy-framew...

Brian Terlson @b.trl.sn · 08/02/2025

No plans that I'm aware of.

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Brian Terlson @b.trl.sn · 07/02/2025

All I'll say is that we have a lot of documentation to update so nobody should be surprised if something falls through the cracks...

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Brian Terlson @b.trl.sn · 07/02/2025

! Caution @deprecated deprecation documentation is itself deprecated and will be removed prior to 1.0-preview. Which is coming up! Hoping we can keep it as an easter egg, though 😂

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Brian Terlson @b.trl.sn · 30/01/2025

Thanks for the kind words 😁 Regarding direct code generators, we're working on them! Should have both client and server generators in a few languages soon for you to try (or you could even try now depending on your tolerance for roughness, if so let me know).

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Brian Terlson @b.trl.sn · 16/01/2025

For fun I thought to ask chatgpt for tips on night roofing with no experience, expecting "don't". Even after telling it my ladder is rickety, I have no safety equipment or lights, it's raining, I'm drunk and on meds that make me dizzy, it still gave me tips. It did at least suggest I reconsider tho.

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Brian Terlson @b.trl.sn · 06/01/2025

Also recipes just outright lie about how long things take ("cook onions until caramelized, about 5 minutes") or are wildly unrealistic about tasks which can be done in parallel if you only have two hands.

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Brian Terlson @b.trl.sn · 06/01/2025

Just spent 3.5 hours on a 1.5 hour recipe, here. Everyone cooks at their own pace, are faster or (more often) slower at certain tasks. I think recipe websites are motivated to make them sound easy so they tend to under-account time.

Brian Terlson @b.trl.sn · 12/12/2024

Sir how do we know you aren't playing steel guitar or the marimba?

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Brian Terlson @b.trl.sn · 10/12/2024

Maybe I'm wrong but it often feels correct to tie the lifetime of state to the instantiation of the module? I do this a lot even for non-tiny things. Things like weakmaps tracking metadata about seen types feel correct up there. Very different from days-of-yore `window.SOME_STATE` I guess.

Brian Terlson @b.trl.sn · 26/11/2024

Etsy is just temu with more steps. I have to believe it's working for them otherwise they'd fix it, which is sad.

Brian Terlson @b.trl.sn · 26/11/2024

But you always told me I sounded great?? 🤔

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Brian Terlson @b.trl.sn · 26/11/2024

Chaos continued: upstairs neighbor is practicing the accordion (they need it)

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Tab Atkins-Bittner @tabatkins.com · 25/11/2024

Welcome to yellow! Soon you will find that orange has the best air compressor for a fraction of the price. Do not give in to temptation, the yellow one is fine.

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Labelers I use (a thread) General-use that everyone should have: * @profile-labels.bossett.social Insanely useful automated labeler for new accounts, recently changed handles, etc * @pronouns.adorable.mom Pronouns! * @khronos.world Timezones!

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Nice! Any others you like?

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There is a prettier plugin! www.npmjs.com/package/@typ...

Brian Terlson @b.trl.sn · 24/11/2024

Good news TypeSpec fans: GitHub just merged our PR to add syntax highlighting. Should be mere days until your TypeSpecs look pretty 🥳

Screenshot of the GitHub UI showing the PR being approved, pending popularity label removed, and ultimately getting merged.

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The giant bottle of conditioner without the matching shampoo is 😙👌

Brian Terlson @b.trl.sn · 15/11/2024

Starting a new block list for soap genes

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Brian Terlson @b.trl.sn · 15/11/2024

Ma'am don't you have a cross stitch you need to finish by Christmas?

Tyler Kennedy @tkte.ch · 15/11/2024

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Finally released v4 of [py]yyjson github.com/TkTech/py_yy..., which among other things can now support parsing into Decimal objects with no loss of precision (inspired by @b.trl.sn's blog.trl.sn/blog/what-is... article. Inf/NaN, comments, trailing commas, JSON Patch, JSON Merge-Patch, it does it all

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GitHub - TkTech/py_yyjson: Python bindings for yyjson.

Python bindings for yyjson. Contribute to TkTech/py_yyjson development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Brian Terlson @b.trl.sn · 13/11/2024

So sad. At least we still have loaf n jug.

As someone with a neurotic rescue shep I love that dog

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That looks fantastic. How do you do recipe scaling with the freeform input? Some kind of simple grammar for ingredients? I have like two half starts on something like this, tuned for how I cook. I'm jealous you actually made the thing 😂

Juicy lucy discourse, which we are very proud of despite everyone secretly knowing it's not that great.

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Excellent, I enjoy it much. Should do similar. What's the recipe entry UI look like if I can ask?

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