> So, (re)defining language constructs in a project seems nightmarish to me to support in production and therefore I never even attempted anything serious in a

> So, (re)defining language constructs in a project seems nightmarish to me to support in production and therefore I never even attempted anything serious in a functional programming language. It can be, but also not. If you isolate them into libraries with clear interfaces, you can kind of avoid that. I think clojure.core.async is an excellent showcase in something you couldn't do in other languages, where asynchronous channels were possible to add to the core language without changing anything in the core compiler itself, and because of the small interface, you can still use it without ending up with nightmares :)