Comment by shevy-java
1 hour ago
That is impressive, but it also looks like a babelfish language. The |> seems to have been inspired by Elixir? But this is like a mish-mash of javascript-like entities; and then Rust is also used? It also seems rather verbose. I mean it's great that it did not require a lot of effort, but why would people favour this over less verbose DSL?
> babelfish language
Yes, exactly! It's more akin to a bash pipeline, but instead of plain text flowing through sed/grep/awk/perl it uses json flowing through jq/lua/handlebars.
> The |> seems to have been inspired by Elixir
For me, F#!
> and then Rust is also used
Rust is what the runtime is written in.
> It also seems rather verbose.
IMO, it's rather terse, especially because it is more of a configuration of a web application runtime.
> why would people favour this
I dunno why anyone would use this but it's just plain fun to write your own blog in your own DSL!
The BDD-style testing framework being part of the language itself does allow for some pretty interesting features for a language server, eg, the LSP knows if a route that is trying to be tested has been defined. So who knows, maybe someone finds parts of it inspiring.