On Hiatus : Learning from Handmade Hero before continuining

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This library was my first major attempt to really try a different path to the programming style I have to done in either Unreal/Godot, or I had done traditionally for other personal projects.

I have been interested in the handmade philosophy for a couple of years now (peripherally). This month I've decided to eat the bullet and go "all-in". So I've been doing handmade hero now as my main side-project off work, and plan to come back to this as soon as I feel comfortable switching back with what I learn.

The library is in a pretty good state, it can technically generate the vast majority of code people would want todo, the next phase is really beyond the original scope for it. However, there is a lot of potential with the next phase I see for this library and want to come at it when I got other goals squared away. For now at least I'll cleanup what I have in dev and possibly update main if possible before pausing.

So far I reordered the roadmap a bit from what my original plans were. First I wanted to do was get the library fully validating with the AST::is_equal function before redesigning anything or adding new features. Right now coming back to close this off properly I realized that what I need to instead do is kill off the tasks left to work on what would really make my velocity faster : A visual AST debugger.

To make that happen without having to refactor/rewrite the debugger, I need to finalize the AST data layout, do some of the last improvements or fixes to the debug_string, and make sure the parser can fail and continue on errors:

This comes from the realization that most of the time I spend on this project is debugging the parser now-days and trying to make a string debug to show failures along with other meta-data is actually more difficult than just setting up a graphical debug of the AST tree itself.

I've done this before in godot for another language project:

I'll do something similar for this library; this time with raylib, and probably with a few more features to introspect properly.