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by amw-zero 1647 days ago
It’s just subtly different than anything else out there. It for the most part feels like a Python-like language, but compiles to C so is very fast.

It also has one of the better macro systems out there. I was interested in developing a programming language with macros, and it has a ton of documentation about it. It’s really well thought out.

I’m not saying to run a business on it, but there are lots of interesting things out there. Language design is still a very active area of innovation.