Writing prettier Haskell with Unicode syntax and Vim(alt-romes.github.io)

45 points by romes 3 years ago | 40 comments

Imagining a language without booleans(justinpombrio.net)

69 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 69 comments

Why bother with argv[0]?(wietzebeukema.nl)

236 points by wietze 2 years ago | 232 comments

Why I love OCaml (2023)(mccd.space)

379 points by art-w 11 months ago | 270 comments

Personal blog post by Marc Coquand explaining why he loves OCaml, comparing it with Haskell and other languages he has used.

What makes Lisp difficult to read?(paultm.nl)

20 points by ibobev 28 days ago | 24 comments

Blog post exploring why Lisp's parenthesis-heavy syntax is perceived as hard to read and what that implies for designing syntax in new languages.

Weird Lexical Syntax(justine.lol)

407 points by jart 2 years ago | 214 comments

Justine Tunney's blog post surveying surprising lexical syntax quirks across 42 programming languages learned while building a syntax highlighter for llamafile.