On: Val: A New Language Alternative to C++, Rust

[timwaagh]

Unfortunately it looks like symbol spaghetti. C and friends have one advantage: they look clean.

[pjmlp → timwaagh]

Indeed, so clean

http://unixwiz.net/techtips/reading-cdecl.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_vexing_parse

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2023/p26...

[nextaccountic → timwaagh]

it uses mostly the same sigils and syntax elements from C, like &, [], etc (the ${} is for string formatting, that in C is written %d, %lu etc - which is arguably worse)

for me the problem is that it changed the meaning of & gratuitously

[frou_dh → timwaagh]

*familiar