Fabulous paper on the history of Emacs Lisp and its design:
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Pipe operator syntax is coming to JS!
Babel is a fabulous way of enabling users to try out new syntax and report how they find it.
https://babeljs.io/blog/2019/07/03/7.5.0
I'm not a text supremacist. I've seen fabulous GUIs for inspecting data (database explorers, morphic halos, browser tools). WYSIWYG has a ton of advantages.
Yet I can't find a rich text UI I prefer over writing markdown directly. It's less surprising.