Comment by soheil
4 years ago
This read like gibberish to me
<header[fs:xl fw:700 ta:center c:gray8/40 p:2]> name
Why are we moving away from elegant legible HTML/JS/CSS stack to no nightmares like this and React where everything is smooshed together?
> bringing the elegance and concision of Ruby into the browser
As a big fan of Ruby how does this tap into the elegance of Ruby? Ruby is readable, this is not. In Ruby it's very difficult to write code that makes people suffer greatly to understand, this seems to be the opposite.
> It is very opinionated, so some of you might not like it
As if that's the reason people won't like this. Give me a non-opinionated language and I'll show you as many people not liking it. Create a good language and people will flock.
> Create a good language and people will flock.
What a truthfully useless statement. "Good" means having opinions about things that dont matter? Like "I don't like that css uses full words, I prefer these acronyms"
Who gives a shit? Is this language designed to prevent copy pasting? You may be on to something here.
No that's not what good is, I in fact love languages with concise syntax, Java is probably the worst in that department.
Really? Java has the best syntax out there. It's consistent and very easy to read unlike Go, Rust or the modern languages these days
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yeah who doesn't, except you don't have to make a "better" language with concise syntax but mediocre in everything else (exact same semantic as javascript, we already have python for that). Make a lisp or a haskell.
And this garbage css syntax is not concise, it's stupid, it's concise in the same sense that emoji is concise comparing to English.
Thought this at first but it's just tailwind css aliases. They are interchangeable with the full name.
fs = font-size
fw = font-width
ta = text-align
c = color
what I don't understand is why not have these abbreviations as snippets (text expansions) in the IDE, instead of language primitives?
So that the primitives match what people are familiar with from before, and match the actual web standards/specifications.
So that code which is reproduced and communicated online is also immediately readable for people who are not familiar with the abbreviations.
To gain adoption, reducing onboarding friction is key, and judging from my impression of Imba, as well as others' comments here, I think a lot of that unnecessary friction could be reduced.
On the other hand, if pros like reading very terse code, maybe an IDE plugin could be made to toggle the abbreviations.