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Are there any developer experience advantages for `x := 1` over `let x = 1`? A `let` keyword probably improves parsing error behaviour, and makes declarations more visible. := is more concise though.

Bootstrapping a language can be immensely satisfying. I've added the ability to define stub types in the Garden stdlib and suddenly I don't need to special-case Int or String! They're just normal type declarations.

OCaml's syntax is interesting: there are very few characters different between variable and function declarations: let foo = bar 123 vs let foo x = bar x Taking the idea of a lisp-1 to even the syntax!