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Yes, in my opinion, but from Zig's success you can see some people are willing to trade safety for a simpler language. Different people have different values

Though to be fair you can also use zig in old C projects, moving things incrementally. I don't know how many projects do that Vs greenfield projects though

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Following your example, it'd be like the author of a book buying the book they wrote from someone else. If the author chooses to pay someone else 1000$ for their book, they can, but they will be wasting money.

A company doing a stock buyback is trading off their own capital (they have to spend it, it's not an infinite money glitch where they buy it from themselves) to get back shares of the company itself at the then-market-price. The market chooses whether that's a good trade. It may not

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I know that bash does this, and possibly other shells, but it doesn't work in general when you `execv` the file (or when using the subprocess API on python f.i). But cool trick anyway

Doesn't look like that's the case in OP's solution, where HTML tags are transformed into Lua tables. I guess then there's some code that turns the lua tables into the html text to be sent to the client

But now I see this website and it turns out that "Cleopatra" is consistently one of the most visited pages in the Spanish Wikipedia. Odd! I googled and it turns out that it's because it's one of the example queries in Google Assistant (source, in Spanish: https://www.elespanol.com/omicrono/software/20230118/cleopat... ). I must have tapped on it without realising. And like me, thousands of others, every day! Fascinating

This is one of the things that _are_ addressed by the project.

Regarding your broader point, I don't know if adding a new language would/will help emacs or not but it's _plausible_ something like that would work. The plugin ecosystem in the vim world became more vibrant once writing them in lua was an option.

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Additionally, even if you insist that this reader monad is a "wrapper", your definition would also informally apply to things like `Applicative`, and not all applicatives are monads (some are).

Some monads are more easily understood as wrappers (`Maybe`, `List`, ...) and you can be very productive if you just stick to that level of understanding. But there's a deeper understanding that one can get.

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/mtl-2.3.1/docs/src/Contr...