Custom feeds are turning out to be a huge can of worms. Oh well, I've always wanted to write a compiler 😅

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How come custom feeds need a compiler??? 👀

Feed composition gets complex, it's very powerful, quite clean, but pretty hard to build

Needs to run on the server.

I'm waiting, thinking about fractal UIs 😂

Oh dear

Write a library in C or rust so we can link it into all the other languages. If it is that complex, we'd benefit from a single implementation to get us started at least.

Too bad I don't know either of those languages 😅 But it's actually not the compiler that's all that complex, it's writing the UI for it. The compiler has one or two hairy functions but they should be pretty easy to port over to something other than javascript.

Please make it a natural language query. Something like "All notes with hashtags A, B, F, and Y that have media" it should just ignore filler words that are not keywords. I'm happy to help, if you'd like.