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I like the folks involved with Honu and new language initiatives are always great, but to me this reads as "Honu's real trick is supporting something I don't wa
by drcode 7y ago
I like the folks involved with Honu and new language initiatives are always great, but to me this reads as "Honu's real trick is supporting something I don't want, using something I don't want"
- wtetzner 7y agoWell, given that it's meant to be language research, I think there's a ton of value in it. We already have a bunch of popular existing languages with infix syntax, and Honu shows how a powerful hygienic macro system can be applied to those. You may not want a powerful macro system in those languages, but I personally think it would far preferable to the existing mess of annotations and build-system hacks to generate code.