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by nine_k 1828 days ago
I frankly think that alternative syntaxes for the same languages ought to be a thing. Case in point: OCaml and Reason.

I can imagine a curly-braced syntax for Dhall (BTW Haskell does have curly-braced syntax when you need it), curly-braced syntax for Python, etc. Indent-based syntax for HTML was implemented (but I forgot the name).

Also, RTL syntax and Arabic / Hebrew keywords for languages have also been implemented; this must be a huge help to those whose native writhing systems are RTL. Try writing your code right-indented and with all expressions backwards.