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Comment by zozbot234

2 years ago

I don't know about Golang but there are languages where this sort of highly domain-optimized, super terse syntax could be embedded as a domain-specific sublanguage, in a significantly less hackish way than what C allows.

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vessenes  2 years ago

I'm not that knowledgeable, and def not a C apologist, but what language are you thinking of? To my eyes, that is some heavy abuse of the preprocessor in a way that I don't think almost any modern "safe" language could possibly countenance.

I read that code like he got the expressivity benefits of a lisp macro system with close-to-the-metal C speeds in like 100 lines of code. I'm curious what else could do this.