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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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?
Example of my current notation / translation:
%def{msf}{\mathsf{#0}}
@${hello #msf{world}}
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let msf = (...args) => "\mathsf{" + args[0] + "}"
return React.createElement($, {}, "hello ", msf("world"));
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I need three different sigils for function calls (#), React elements (@), and statements (%). In search of a simpler design, but this is currently what I have. Definitely more complex than Scribble, both bc domain reasons (React vs string) and lang reasons (stmt != expr).
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The stmt/expr distinction doesn't seem like it requires the notation distinction -- it's more that in Scribble everything can be done with function-call syntax b/c parentheses.
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