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by adastra22 683 days ago
You are being down-voted for the snark, but there is point there. This seems to be "people use Python because of the whitespace, so let's remove parenthesis." Which if true, is (1) vastly missing the point, and (2) this project isn't really exploring any fundamentally new areas of language design then.

I was kinda hoping to see this was the next generation of Lisp language design, but it appears to be just a different syntax.

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> I was kinda hoping to see this was the next generation of Lisp language design, but it appears to be just a different syntax.

Dig deeper in the reference documentation.

It does things Lisp doesn't do?
I a not sure which Lisp you are thinking of, but compared to a "standard" Lisp you might be interested in how the module system interacts with the macro system. In particular the concept of a tower of phases.
Thanks, I'll look into that!