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The JavaScript syntax is a hard spot, having spent time with the visually lighter (maybe?) Python these years. The gradual typing is onto something, as it lets
by smitty1e 5y ago
The JavaScript syntax is a hard spot, having spent time with the visually lighter (maybe?) Python these years.
The gradual typing is onto something, as it lets us migrate from the quick-n-dirty "science project" up to a non-trivial codebase.
IDEs seem like a "maybe". We want to generate code gracefully as text files.
Yet, I haven't seen a language include real amounts of Unicode in its syntax. With an IDE to enter/render more expressive characters, we could see code that is more explanatory at a glance (short of a full APL experience).
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Yet, I haven't seen a language include real amounts of Unicode in its syntax. Raku does in terms of built-in operators (but all of them also have ASCII n-gram names), which aren't quite syntax (because Raku is a language where operators are not syntax but identifiers.) Agda uses Unicode fairly freely (again, for built-in identifiers, not syntax per se.)