Add pre-commit hooks for linting & tests #155
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I was recently inspired by compiler explorer's pre-commit hooks. Using GitHub Actions to execute tests was consistently holding up my workflow, relying on builders to download our entire toolchain, check syntax, and run tests has been painful to say the least.
This new strategy involves bringing in a dev dependency to install git hooks, which will execute the following in order
This will greatly improve the speed of the development cycle, and prevent having to wait on builders.
Furthermore, we're bringing clippy back as, since it's removal, lots of skeletons I am ashamed of appeared. This patch includes all of the changes to satisfy clippy.