That’s an idea I’ve been playing around with for my personal language. If I do decide to release it, I have a feeling there will be common style rules that will

That’s an idea I’ve been playing around with for my personal language. If I do decide to release it, I have a feeling there will be common style rules that will be required for any ‘library’ code (it would be like if C++ files had to meet google style guides to be posted to some central collection repo). I think the compiler could implement the conversion, but it could require a programmer supplied ‘translation’ file (like including Unicode to ASCII substitutions, or required macro unrolling to some language core set of language features). That would allow for anyone to keep there code formatted in the most logical way for them, but would allow for a common format for distribution. I would also think going the other way, from public style to private should be a possibility. I don’t know if I will ever actually put my personal language out for release, but I’ve had two acquaintances repeatedly tell me (along with several HN commenters) that I really should at least release some blog posts about the language. Currently it is just my daily driver for work related programming and it compiles to C++, C, or JavaScript.