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Michael (compiler-errors) Goulet

I feel like the work i did to improve diagnostics in github.com/rust-lang/ru... is paying off a lot now. I see it all the time. We now report "purely additive" typo fixes for things like methods using an inline syntax that highlights what to *add*, rather than the whole identifier.

8/5/25, 2:56 pm6 reposts76 likes

@livingcoder.bsky.social

Thank you for this!

Michael (compiler-errors) Goulet

And github.com/rust-lang/ru... too

github.comMore sophisticated span trimming for suggestions by compiler-errors · Pull Request #137348 · rust-lang/rustPreviously #136958 only cared about prefixes or suffixes. Now it detects more cases where a suggestion is "sandwiched" by unchanged code on the left or the right. Would be cool if we coul...

@falb.bsky.social

the phrasing of the error is so odd