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Jul 14, 2019 at 16:53
@cwebber@octodon.social Thanks. I completely understand: I'm super hesitant to critique in public. I think syntax pivots are incredibly hard. When I learnt coffeescript I occasionally had to look at the compiled JS to understand the syntax. Somehow the JS felt more 'real' (and wasn't whitespace sensitive). Small syntax changes are much easier: just give the user an autofix script for their programs.

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