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ricardobeattoday at 1:16 AM1 replyview on HN

I see JavaScript.

Some of these really look like QoL improvements. I'm not convinced ternary statements are an ergonomic improvement in particular. The examples given don't make a compelling case, 'visually tidy' is not the same as readable.


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nine_ktoday at 1:50 AM

Worse, I see C (as in ! or &&), and Perl (as in manifestly more than one way to do it).

There are real improvements though, such as ?. and ??= that help with default-nullable everything.

Ternary is very useful, but it I'd rather see it implemented idiomatically:

  pos += (if forward then +1 else -1)
Structural pattern-matching could be fantastic, but no syntax is suggested.