# Crowdsourcing request: What syntax changes that will affect the AST are currently in flight?

**URL:** <https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/crowdsourcing-request-what-syntax-changes-that-will-affect-the-ast-are-currently-in-flight/24361>\
**Category:** language design\
**Created:** [May 29, 2026, 7:31pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/crowdsourcing-request-what-syntax-changes-that-will-affect-the-ast-are-currently-in-flight/24361 "2026-05-29T19:31:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![programmerjake](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/internals.rust-lang.org/programmerjake/32/5893_2.png) [@programmerjake](https://internals.rust-lang.org/u/programmerjake)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2026, 12:53am UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/crowdsourcing-request-what-syntax-changes-that-will-affect-the-ast-are-currently-in-flight/24361/5 "2026-05-30T00:53:10Z")

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one other thing that would be really nice would to have better parser error recovery so using a proc-macro on some large section of code doesn't just replace everything with `compile_error!()` whenever the code is incomplete while you're editing it in an IDE.

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