I want to change julia and add python like features to it. Make syntax look like Python but inside it is Julia compiler-based. Is it possible? How can I do this? Thank you :slight_smile:

It could be fun to write a string macro to accept “pythonic julia” and emit actual julia. I wonder how far you could get before an insurmountable problem. Maybe you’d start by making indentation meaningful so you could write function f(x, y): if x>2: return y else: return 2*…

How to rewrite Julia programming language from scratch?

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Tamas_Papp November 29, 2020, 8:55am 12

I am not sure what that means, but syntax here is a red herring. What makes Julia special is its semantics, that could — in principle — accommodate a wide variety of surface syntaxes. See eg

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How to rewrite Julia programming language from scratch?

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