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Simon Tournier
Simon Tournier
@zimoun@social.sciences.re  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

The politics of language design by Pierre-Étienne Meunier in #LixCon2026

« Create your own language only if you need something new in language design »

« OCaml already exists and is the best language for that particular job »

Yeah, I would have loved instead of Nix language 😱 and Guix Scheme DSL 🤨 to have OCaml. 🤩

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Simon Tournier
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@zimoun@social.sciences.re replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

🤔 To some extent, ideas behind Elpe reminds me propellor (Haskell)

Joey Hess’s talk in linux conf au 2017: https://youtu.be/kzXXcr8TyJY

https://nest.pijul.com/pmeunier/elpe
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