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nikki93 on March 24, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cross platform GUIs and Nim macros

Yeah I think one of the main things that React offers is a DSL for trees (JSX) that can lexically close over and also splice in JavaScript. Languages that allow creating your own DSLs offer this for other realms such as shader coding, logic programming etc. within the metalanguage.

draegtun on March 25, 2017 [–]

>Languages that allow creating your own DSLs offer this for other realms...

Rebol & Red are examples of this, there's a GUI dialect called VID [1][2] and in companion with this is a Draw dialect [3][4].

1. http://rebol.com/docs/easy-vid.html

2. https://doc.red-lang.org/en/vid.html

3. http://www.rebol.com/docs/draw.html

4. https://doc.red-lang.org/en/draw.html

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