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Re:About V, the language Volt is written in by amedvednikov on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @08:56PM (#19102239)
I'm against macros. I've done a lot of research on this topic.

One of the main goals is simplicity and maintainability. I want people to be able to jump into any code base (including stdlib and compiler) and understand what's going on. Macros don't help with that.

I went through like 10 names and ALL of them were taken. There are a lot of programming languages out there :)

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Re:About V, the language Volt is written in by skocznymroczny on Thursday February 07, 2019 @09:29AM (#19105388)
I don't know of any language with macros that have proper IDEs that do more than syntax highlighting. One of the reasons languages like Dart, Java or C# have such amazing IDE capabilities w.r.t. refactoring is that they don't generate half of their code during runtime...
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Re:About V, the language Volt is written in by rafaelvasco on Thursday February 07, 2019 @09:57AM (#19105547)
I agree. Macros only help the programmer. They significantly decrease code readability imo. Code readability is more about how easy it is to understand what is going on than about how much stuff there is to read.
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