Comment by mdaniel

> Why a new language?

In my opinion, Starlark (in rust, Apache 2: <https://github.com/facebook/starlark-rust/blob/v0.13.0/LICEN...>) is the way since it is designed for sandboxed environments and also (AIUI) was initially designed to support Bazel, a build tool

Now, I'm totally on board that people can hate on whitespace sensitive languages, but if my choice was "make my own language that no one has ever heard of" or "delete the Python hater's emails" ...

It also would mean that you could tag your Werkfile in .gitattributes with linguist annotations[1] and they'd syntax highlight, which isn't the case with your own language https://github.com/simonask/werk/blob/5990c8a9536a1a76c3da59...

1: https://github.com/github-linguist/linguist/blob/v9.0.0/docs...