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grim_io | on: Mojo 1.0
I never understood this.

What kind of special whitespace requirements do people have?

pansa2 | parent
I like significant invitation, but I still wouldn’t choose it if I was designing a language today.

Functional-style programming has become much more popular since Python was designed in the 1990s, and there doesn’t seem to be a good way to have Python-like significant indentation and also support true anonymous functions.

pjmlp | root | parent | next
True anonymous functions has nothing to do with indentation, ML derived languages are also indentation based.

Guido doesn't want them in the language, as simple as that.

winding | root | parent | next
As I understand it, Mojo’s goal is to be able to match state of the art performance for parallel algorithms and be able to use the exotic GPU hardware. A functional style is not necessarily productive in that context.

One interesting PL concept they implement are linear types https://mojolang.org/docs/std/traits/anytype/AnyType/

maleldil | root | parent | next
Haskell has significant indentation and anonymous functions.
ameliaquining | root | parent
Haskell's significant indentation is, in my experience, much worse than Python's at fading into the background by matching what you would have done anyway.
jampekka | root | parent
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