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by hydroxonium 2210 days ago
Python + Functional = http://coconut-lang.org/
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If I didn't already do elixir professionally I'd definitely be learning coconut, it looks super cool.
As a language purist this one is surprisingly well put together. Its impl suffers from legacy (py2 support in general, predating builtin dataclasses, staying in the shallow end of type annotations) but it really does what it does better enough than its host language to be worth giving attention to. Check it out.
> destructuring assignment

Sign me up plz.

Ooo! That looks awesome!

(Something about Haskell...)