[hn_throwaway_99]

Minor point, and others have brought up more details around composability, but I think it's an absolute mistake to reference properties on an object before that object is declared. I.e. if SQL had the FROM clause before the SELECT clause autocomplete support could be much more intelligent about helping with SELECT columns.

Same problem with declaring imports in javascript. Python got it correct, where I write e.g. 'from somemodule import ...', so by the time I get to the import the parser has enough info to help with autocomplete. Javascript's 'import { Something } from "foo"' means the parser can't help me autocomplete Something.

[earthboundkid]

I find imports in Python completely backwards conceptually compared to JS. I hadn’t thought about the autocomplete issue though. In practice, I know what I want to import, I guess.

[ric2b]

I think it makes more sense the way Python does it. You get all the dependencies more or less in a column on the left, instead of jumbled at different widths on the right side.