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You can pry pattern matching from my cold dead hands (sopuli.xyz)
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[–] 12 points 8 months ago (1 child)

The majority of its syntax is very similar to many other languages. Can you give an example of a language with pretty syntax?

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  • [–] -3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Key point being, similar to some random languages. JS and Python Syntax don't fit a typed and compiled language at all.

    Pretty syntax would probably be something like C, where not every single character already widely reserved for specific keywords (like !, ', =) is reused in completely random ways.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago*

    Ah yes I also found macro syntax like vec![ and println!( to be a bit jarring at first. However I don't know if I would say that C's approach to macros is any nicer, with it's #define magic

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