Page 36 of A History of Clojure has some interesting comments on things Rich would have done differently: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3386321
The very first item? Better errors! Clojure has improved significantly recently, but doing a good job here is hard (but important!) in any language.
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I'm experimenting with syntax in examples. I don't really like Rust's `assert(inc(1) == 2)` syntax, I find it a little distracting.
I'm trying `inc(1) //-> 2`. The comment is rendered differently, and there's nothing before the sample code. What do you think?
Why do so few CLI tools use colour inside their error messages? For example, rustc uses colour well in the error display, but there's no special styling of the content in backticks.
By contrast, markdown website almost always style backtick text differently from prose.
E.g. `field` is not specially styled here.
Remarkable discussion of the use of emoji as evidence in court: when is it evidence of harassment or a threat of violence? What if it renders differently on different devices? https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/08/tech/emoji-law/index.html