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15:35 <asterite> @CraigBuchek we changed the ugly macro syntax :-)

15:36 <asterite> And we'll slowly start making macros more powerful… in baby steps

16:57 <CraigBuchek> Mustaches. Interesting.

17:12 <asterite> And the ugly quotes are gone

17:17 <CraigBuchek> Yes, better in that respect. Still text-based though, it appears?

17:18 <CraigBuchek> I'm not a fan of mustache in general, but this seems like a good case.

17:18 <asterite> We can use {% .. %} or whatever other syntax

17:18 <asterite> {{…}} has little noise

17:19 <asterite> It's text based, but we think it's better this way

17:19 <asterite> What's the other approach, creating ast nodes?

17:24 <CraigBuchek> Yeah, AST nodes, but that's a ton of work.

17:24 <CraigBuchek> Mustaches are an improvement.

17:24 <CraigBuchek> AST nodes gets you into lisp territory, which you probably don't want.

17:25 <CraigBuchek> And then you've got to worry about running things at compile time.

17:25 <CraigBuchek> So as an LLVM compile language, probably not feasible.

17:34 <asterite> Yes. We might reach that point in the future, but for now we'll support some basic (but powerful) stuff in macros

17:34 <asterite> Like for, if, and some compile-time introspection

18:01 <CraigBuchek> Awesome. That's a great compromise.