Re:Flix – A powerful effect-oriented programming language
by dontlaugh on Friday July 11, 2025 @03:40AM
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I don't think alternative syntax is a good idea. Reason is actually a good example, it forked the ecosystem and then fizzled out.
Re:Flix – A powerful effect-oriented programming language
by pastage on Friday July 11, 2025 @06:08AM
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Not sure if you have some idea on how, but it feels like an unsolved problem to me. E.g. It is easy to theme a data structure, but if the layout matters it can be very hard to theme while also allowing free form edits.
Re:Flix – A powerful effect-oriented programming language
by gavinray on Friday July 11, 2025 @06:21AM
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This is a huge thing already, though?
The JVM is a virtual machine for which Java/Kotlin/Scala/Groovy/Clojure/Flix and a dozen others are front end syntax for.
Same with the CLR and C#, F#, Visual Basic, and technically LLVM/GCC if you want to be pendantic.
But you could do it for almost anything. I would love the ability to hit a key chord in `emacs` and see things in an Algol-family presentation, or an ML family, or a Lisp.
Seems like the kind of thing that might catch on someday. Certainly the math notation in things like Haskell and TLA were a bit of a barrier to entry at one time. Very solvable problem if people care a lot.