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title: "Yuescript first impressions"
date: 2023-02-15T09:35:15-08:00
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I just discovered [Yuescript](https://yuescript.org/doc/), which is like MoonScript with more features. I have mixed feelings.
I like features like pipelines (much cleaner than repeated assignment or nested parentheses in function calls) and compile-time macros. The sugar for multiple and destructuring assignment is handy.
I find the additional operators unnecessary, and not worth their cognitive overhead. The `?` operator was already used as sugar for a parameter-free function call. The `[]` operator could easily have been a function in a library instead.
One of the trade-offs for this much syntactic sugar is some syntactic ambiguity. An opinionated formatter could resolve some of this.