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What's stopping you from writing your Rust like this? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Why aren't "alternate syntaxes" a thing? You can pretty easily just write code to convert between C-like and Python-like syntax. Why aren't there IDE extensions that let you write in python syntax and automatically commit the standard syntax.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 minutes ago

That was exactly what the .NET family of languages was back in the day. Still is, I guess? You could write in VB, C#, or F#, make use of the same standard library and general principles, but then it would all get compiled to the same IL code in the end.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Transpilers are actually pretty popular in js land, Typescript is a good example. You can even transpile a really different syntax if you wanted to. For example, I use squint which lets me write Clojure syntax and produces js as output.