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Can you please tell me why you changed you syntax to JS-like syntax? The previous syntax was good enough, at least from my point of view.
by Egregore 14y ago
Can you please tell me why you changed you syntax to JS-like syntax? The previous syntax was good enough, at least from my point of view.
- georgemcbay 14y agoI don't work on or speak for the Opa team, but I assume they adopted JS-like syntax for the same reason Dart did -- familiarity is important when it comes to language adoption. Regardless of whether or not you think this is a good thing or whether programmers worry too much about superficial syntax issues, this is a practical issue you have to worry about if doing PL design for the real world.
- Egregore 14y agoChanging syntax for marketing reasons seems bad from my point of view, I like pythonish syntaxes, like in haml, CoffeScript etc. So changing to JS was a back step.
- saiko-chriskun 14y agoyeah really didn't like the switch to js