Maybe you could help me understand how Egison compares to OMeta? thanks.
The more I think about it, the ability to create ones own language and execute on the server or on the client as one sees fit, seems like a really nice match. And all without having to do something "heavy handed" like clojurescript or other "overt" compile-to-js stuff...
Hm, and here I thought I'd given up on nodejs, and was ready to move on to other server side languages ;-)
Writing a custom markdown DSL that can live-preview in the editing client, and render to static html on the server for high volume, low-overhead hosting sounds kind of appealing... (There are of course many ways to do this, but the idea of a single, concise grammar and rendering engine is very appealing....).
This interest me because I'm dreaming about build a language and think pattern matching is very cool and look like can replace if & case.
On a side note, I came across this: https://github.com/daveshields/gospitbol
I had to google "unfree data types". This seems to refer to data types that are unstructured and therefore no one thought of a way to represent in syntax. For instance we can ask if the first item of a list (a structured data type) is equal to the last, but we do not have good syntax (nor semantics) to ask what are the pairs that occur in a collection. That's why we keep having to translate between those structures in order to do some operations or ask certain questions.
Very cool stuff.
