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Adám

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Adám

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Adám

**Announcement:** Friday is last chance for submitting answers to the [APL Problem Solving Competition!](https://www.dyalog.com/student-competition.htm)

Jack Douglas

We may have to host (or create) our own version and maintain it

Jack Douglas

My bigger worry is about the long-term viability of TiO

Jack Douglas

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Jack Douglas replying to Adám *— 10 days ago* *in [Answer language labels](/codegolf?q=1032#c57346)*  
>Does [this gist](https://gist.github.com/jackdouglas/47a9c43b8c6641b92867d87d0de7d13f) look like the correct language list to you? I mean not obviously wrong.
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Jack Douglas replying to AviFS

we are planning to load at least the 200 or so practical languages on TiO in bulk

Jack Douglas replying to AviFS

I'm just a bit leery of trusting user input that much — and we have useful meta-data attached to each language (like which TiO languages it matches and which highlighting to use) so exact matches are necessary

Adám replying to AviFS

![blob](/image?hash=012315377998c80a072e3aa2da51d407d4756111526e101d642a1ce6c9f15684) :-D

AviFS

The other issue with adding language tags explicitly is that I can see you're adding them as they're used. TIO has >600 langs, and even more than just those have been used on SE. And people constantly make more...

AviFS replying to Jack Douglas

Isn't adding explicit language tags in the answer previews unnecessary? By nature of the standard entry style, the title is already formatted as *[lang], n bytes* so if a tag is desired, why not parse it out?

Jack Douglas replying to Adám

oh thanks I didn't know that!

Adám replying to Jack Douglas

The modern approach is to use @font-face unicode-range

Jack Douglas

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David replying to Jack Douglas *— 31 minutes ago* *in [PHP Chat](/php?room=879#c49707)*  
>Hmm, I see. Yeah, you're right. The "complete" there is only Latin 1-3, Greek, and Cyrillic. Not Arabic, Devanagri, etc. They would need to be individually added, I take it. 
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Jack Douglas

@Adám I noticed you commented on an issue on the IBM Plex Sans GitHub issue tracker, so I thought you might be able to answer a question about it. Do you know if there is a 'combined' version available with all the glyphs (inculding Arabic, Devanagari etc)?

Jack Douglas

I think we do need it though

Jack Douglas

that's the slightly annoying part :)

Adám

I guess.

Jack Douglas replying to Adám

ok, we'll allow changing then. I presume we need to capture the history of changes too?

Adám replying to Jack Douglas

I, for one, quite often change the language of an existing post, to switch between flavours of APL. I've also commonly seen people switch from Python 3 to 2 and between flavours of JavaScript.

Jack Douglas

but I was thinking about whether changing the language should be allowed

Jack Douglas

not being able to see it on edit is a bug

Jack Douglas replying to Adám

at the moment you can only set the language on a new post

Adám

@Jack How/where is the programming language stored now? I can't see it if I edit.

Jack Douglas

we'll also add search and sort options down the line

Jack Douglas

you will be able to 'label' an answer `05AB1E` (for example), and it will set the default syntax highlight and tio language for the post

Jack Douglas replying to petStorm

well I can't speak for everyone! you might like to know we have started work on answer language labels

petStorm

But then, it's flagged.

Jack Douglas

we don't mind a bit of banter

Jack Douglas replying to petStorm

that's much better :)

petStorm

>no I don't know what you mean and you don't know what I mean, let's pretend 😃  

>I appreciate your spam here  
>but no one likes contributions that fills up half their screen  
>or stops  
>or makes itself quiet

Jack Douglas

or makes a noise

Jack Douglas

or moves

Jack Douglas

but no one likes spam that fills up half their screen

Jack Douglas

I appreciate your contributions here

Jack Douglas replying to petStorm

yes I know what you mean and you know what I mean, let's not pretend :)

petStorm replying to Jack Douglas

^ Sure. I already used it for that.

Jack Douglas replying to petStorm

you know I mean just in the Sandbox

petStorm replying to Jack Douglas

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Jack Douglas replying to petStorm

please would you use the sandbox for that?

Jack Douglas replying to petStorm

because I've had to use it — neat sounding ideas don't always work in practice

petStorm

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petStorm

> The secret to better slacking is a feature that everyone hates.

petStorm replying to Jack Douglas

I don't know why you hate this method...

Jack Douglas replying to petStorm

you need to try it to hate it properly

petStorm

I feel that this method makes it easier to view the whole ongoing conversation.

petStorm replying to Jack Douglas

Do replies to messages nest inside each other?

Jack Douglas

https://forge.medium.com/the-secret-to-better-slacking-is-a-feature-that-everyone-hates-f9a575da6a0a

Jack Douglas replying to petStorm

> threaded replies are confined to a sidebar

petStorm

It would be interesting to know an approach that I haven't heard of.