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The token processors seem interesting, and a great C/JS like syntax with a solid looking Python-like standard library.

Would be nice to have some simpler docs though, is there a REPL?

I can't figure out how to build the sources from the download page, and I don't see any packages in distrorepos yet.

EDIT: Nevermind, pointing `fixbuild` to a directory and script file works: `./fixbuild -src dir -m main`

The documentation could always improve, what things are you missing or think would be better made simpler?

There is no REPL available. I'm not decided if to build one, depends on what it could be useful for? I certainly use Python REPL as a calculator but maybe it's not that common usage of it. There is also a plan to have online sandbox to play with.

Great that you were able to figure it out. You can also add a "-c" parameter to create a "build.fix" file so that you could use just "fixbuild" for repeated builds (from any subdirectory of the project).

More information about this: https://www.fixscript.org/docs/sdk/fixbuild/build.html

Yeah better docs would be useful, and IDE integration (vscode extension?) for syntax highlighting and build.fix creation would be useful.

If I get an idea this might be useful for, will definitely consider using.

What have been your main use cases? or targets?

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