Hi :+1:t3: As a newbie, one of the hardest parts of Julia for me yet, is clearly its error messages. :frowning: I find them often to be more confusing than helpful, and I am aware, that a part of this comes from the nature of Julia’s type system. Also, I think a substantial amount of disorder com…

See this thread. [image] Make Julia’s Error Codes Even Better Than Elm’s Internals & Design Extremely user friendly and helpful for new users

Sadly, this thread has been quickly devolved into a very different topic, in my opinion. It has not really been perceived as what I intend to say in this post. And I was reluctant, to unearth this quite old post, so I started a new one. I really hope, this time, we can speak about the practical a…

Some of the improvements with JuliaSyntax have landed in 1.10 (not sure if you’re using it). I think the expectation is that these errors will be improved from now, with this framework.

Yes, this is why I wrote: ‘The upcoming JuliaSyntax is thankfully improving the situation significantly’ :grin: Still, it has mostly improved error detection, and NOT how errors are presented. They have not changed, to my knowledge, how they are set into context, and have not empowered the compile…

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