Choosing a syntax for a new programming language is hard. You want to be similar enough to an established language to avoid scaring off users.
You still want to be sufficiently novel to be recognisable. Which languages do this well?
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Blogging about my programming language project: choosing the basic syntax!
https://www.garden-lang.org/blog/syntax.html
I'm still tinkering with the website for my PL experiment. I want the styling to express "labour of love hobby project".
Choosing what program to show on the home page is really hard too. All the keywords are links like Racket.
What do you think? https://www.garden-lang.org/
TIL Advent of Code and Project Euler will deliberately look for puzzles where the naive solution is worse than quadratic.
This ensures that people can solve them with any programming language. You don't want fast languages to be able to use the naive solution.