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Am I correct in seeing this as a custom language for a custom browser? That kind of makes this a bit more impressive but equally more challenging if nothing else to find other members to help with develop!


Yup, FixScript is a new language. Author says in a blog post[1]:

> It started as a very simple scripting language for a specific need. But when I caught myself using it also for the main program it became obvious that the language is much more than just for the scripting.

It has some interesting parts; the "base" vs. "classes" syntaxes remind me of Vala. Using syntax to disambiguate some things at compile time reminds me of Raku (including typed variables). It also has syntactic macros (similar to Erlang parse transforms) called "token processors", so the syntax is fully extensible - invalid tokens are kept by the parser and passed to token processor, so in principle you could completely ignore the original syntax (something you can't do in Rust or Nim).

In any case, the language is rather small and simple (it reminds me of Janet a bit); picking it up shouldn't be too big of a hurdle, I think.

[1] https://www.fixscript.org/blog/introduction




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