hello PL people, have we try to design a presentation/styling language that's not basically CSS? I have just recreated CSS within my language and I'm not happy about it :(
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Oh, interesting! We () are quite interested in layout formalisms that could be used to make implementing styling languages easier. It would be neat if this could be used to implement CSS, and also experiment with new styling languages (eg. perhaps without the cascade?).
my current concern is with writing deterministic easy-to-read styling code. I’m assuming that determinism may help with parallelism, but as I’m working with relative layout, that may make implementation even harder 🤷🏽♀️ (but it’s gonna be flexbox/grid based)
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Yeah, determinism can be hard in our case - where we are laying out stuff over multiple pages using CSS. Like, stuff later on can force us to change things earlier, and sometimes you just have to give up and do your best. Like footnotes for example. 😰
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