Language design with Leo White
Signals and Threads
The Holy Grail of Programming Language Design
In languages like Racket, everything is designed around making the compiler extensible so that people can write their own extensions without having to fork. Can you imagine a future where we would have more capabilities of that kind inside a language like O'Kammell? To me, that kind of scheme style extensibility, working out how you do that in a typed language in a way where you maintain the type safety has been described as "the Holy Grail"
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