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by grzm 2909 days ago
Would you care to elaborate? Is there something specific you see in this project that caught your eye? One thing I noticed is the use of ligatures, which is becoming increasingly common as editors embrace Unicode more fully, but that's an editor/presentation feature, not something specific to the language. For example:

  ->  →
  =>  ⇒
  >=  ≥
I've seen an increasing number of people trying out Fira Code, which includes a nice set of such ligatures:

https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

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The font in the screenshots with the ligatures is in fact Fira Code and the font in the REPL screenshots without ligatures is Ubuntu Mono.

I guess those could be considered additional syntax, but they're also completely optional and interchangeable with the corresponding, more Clojure-like keywords.

Yeah, I wouldn't consider them syntax, either. There's a lot we can do to make our coding environments easier to work in, and that's independent of the source code itself. I'm glad to see more exploration in this space.