cognitive psychology. PhD 
String-first programming languages seem to be a really interesting and underexplored design space. I want something halfway between JSX and Scribble, but not MDX.
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Requirements: * No quotes or escapes -- strings are the default, not the exception. * Allow transition between string and code dialects with as few characters as possible, and with arbitrary nesting. * Should be easy to define non-string data structures: lists, classes, lambdas
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Scribble is by far the best example of this design, but I've found it hard to directly translate its concepts into JS / React. Eg sometimes you want to generate a string (say to pass to KaTeX or Penrose), sometimes you want to generate a React element.
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Also "underexplored" isn't quite right. The web is rife with templating languages, which are string-first PLs. But they all suck, except for JSX.
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Can you expand on this a little? Isn't sometimes having a string and sometimes having an expression what Scribble does? Or is this about how it translates to JS-like syntax?
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