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		Hendrikto on Oct 13, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How LSP could have been better > Textual syntax can be implemented a layer up, if the input to the interpreter/compiler is not text but a data structure. If you designed the languages and interpreters/compilers around it. Neither Python nor Javascript are, though.

fiddlerwoaroof on Oct 13, 2023 [–]

My point isn’t that existing languages are designed this way, but it wouldn’t be hard to retrofit this onto an existing language. Especially one like JavaScript that already has relatively widely-used transpilers

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