Will Crichton

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.

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

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.