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Oct 29, 2019 at 01:08
Lots of people have pointed out the advantage of https://foo.bar/ or foo->bar for syntax. It makes it easy to explore things you can do with foo. I think it's an instance of a more general pattern: prefix syntax that an IDE can spot. This has interesting consequences!

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