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I love projects like this, but why S-expressions? Optimizing your frontend for the computer to parse (instead of the human) is the wrong tradeoff IMO unless you really really need an ultra-powerful macro language.

Also, I'd call it "C runtime" not "C-like" of you're not going to have C-like syntax

Just my 2c

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The concrete syntax is WIP and will be Python-like. I posted some links early so you can see what it looks like. I do plan on having the s-expr be the on-disk format, though.

You are right in that the surface syntax will not be c-like but the features (or lack of them) will be.

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