Why is Hoon the way it is?
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Minimalism, mostly.
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Even the seemingly baroque syntax is extremely regular and an unusually thin layer over the abstract syntax tree.
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It's also designed as a power tool; learning the syntax takes some time, but once you know it, it's quite ergonomic and not hard to read.
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It's like an English speaker learning Cyrillic.
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Replying to @urbit
I get where you're going with that I really don't think exposing that layer as the primary interface is conducive to productivity. A restriction of ML that compiles to Nock would be equally safe but much more usable.pic.twitter.com/LOaeyfkB3S
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Eventually, we will definitely need something other than the equivalent of C for Nock
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