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by lpage 871 days ago
Your mention of Futamura Projections was a nice reminder of how very mathy/theoretical foundations underpin Nice Things in high-level languages, like Hindley–Milner inspired type systems and modern optimizing compilers targeting SSA form. Value Lattices in Cue [1], another config programmable configuration language, also fall into this bucket.

[1]: https://cuelang.org/docs/concepts/logic/

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Currently using Cue in a major project. It can be a puzzle. But, we like it a lot. Wish it had a bigger community.