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> I hope to see more "sugar" in languages to take advantage of calling out to other programs for help. How about [1] and [2]? My language has those because it
by gavinhoward 2y ago
> I hope to see more "sugar" in languages to take advantage of calling out to other programs for help.
How about [1] and [2]?
My language has those because its first program was its own build script, which requires calling out to a C compiler. It had that before printing to stdout.
Turns out, that made it far more powerful than I imagined without a standard library. Calling out to separate programs is far better than a standard library.
[1]: https://git.yzena.com/Yzena/Yc/src/commit/95904ef79701024857a7f7b7ffa1dc7df3e453ba/tools/format.yao#L127 https://git.yzena.com/Yzena/Yc/src/commit/95904ef79701024857...
[2]: https://git.yzena.com/Yzena/Yc/src/commit/95904ef79701024857a7f7b7ffa1dc7df3e453ba/tools/format.yao#L150-L152 https://git.yzena.com/Yzena/Yc/src/commit/95904ef79701024857...