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  1. working on a programming language design article for a general developer audience. if you could add one feature to javascript at the language level, what would it be?
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      maybe i could just walk people through writing a io → js compiler? iolanguage.org/
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        i want it to be more than new syntax. i want to demonstrate how new *semantics* come to be even when compiling to an existing language.
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          aaaahhhh do i just want to teach people how to write babel plugins...?!
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            maybe its just a simple lisp + macros
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