[ancarda]

>I'm still waiting for the day a C-like language that runs on BEAM

I used to have a similar desire!

I actually started working on a language that transpiled to Haskell, like CoffeeScript -> JS. What I found, however, is a lot of little ways to make it more and more terse, until I ended up with something resembling Haskell’s syntax.

After this happened several times, I had some new found appreciation for Haskell’s syntax. It’s god awful for someone coming from a C-like background, but that seems like a very temporary problem.

I went from hating Haskell’s syntax so much I wanted a language wrapping it, to realizing it’s actually rather well thought out and other languages have a lot of noise to them. Lots of curly braces and semicolons that seem to mostly be there to make writing a compiler easier.

I still love C-like syntax, and still don’t like Haskell’s syntax, but not enough to write a CoffeeScript-like language.