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by breck 2056 days ago
Cool! Thanks for the comment. As I said have been a fan of this project (sidenote: love the name and simple, well designed site).

I have played around with a language dubbed WWT (for "World Wide Types") https://jtree.treenotation.org/designer/#standard%20wwt). Instead of starting with the type system and working my way toward the user have gone the other way starting with the "what would the simplest language look like for building types" and worked my way toward the type system (just compiles to TypeScript for now). My thought is it should be editable in Excel.

What I think needs to happen for TypeDefs (or similar) to nail this, is to create a type language that solves the "last mile" problem. Every organization in the world has their own perspective on things, and will need to extend/modify some global CommonTypes repository. So a great type language would be something that worldwide CommonTypes could be defined in, but that is easy for a dev at the local real estate agent's office to write some code and extend. An "HTML for Types" in that sense. Just a guess.