miniblog.

I'm still not sure whether a language should include a "kitchen sink linter" like Rust's clippy or have a package oriented "thousand flowers bloom" linter like eslint for JS and TS. Clippy is delightful out of the box but eslint makes it so easy to have project specific lints.

Are there any languages that have both pattern matching and statement oriented syntax? In principle these are orthogonal, but I'm struggling to think of a language with pattern matching that isn't expression oriented.

My toy programming language has a pluggable frontend, so you can change syntax easily. The first syntax I built was lispy. I've gradually been adding statement oriented C-ish syntax. I think it would awkward to write a statement oriented lispy syntax. Do any such PLs exist?