There's a new kind of language where the practice is to use whitespace, and only whitespace, as your syntax. Newlines separate blocks and spaces separate words.
One of the unexpected extremely powerful things this allows is finding function usage extremely easy in any text editor that supports regex. You just search for ^[functionName] . Since you know that function pretty much will only be used at the beginning of lines. You can thus make edits against the AST with regexes and without parsing the AST at all.
It's pretty amazing, and leads to quite faster development, and allows one to tackle bigger and more complex problems.
One of the unexpected extremely powerful things this allows is finding function usage extremely easy in any text editor that supports regex. You just search for ^[functionName] . Since you know that function pretty much will only be used at the beginning of lines. You can thus make edits against the AST with regexes and without parsing the AST at all.
It's pretty amazing, and leads to quite faster development, and allows one to tackle bigger and more complex problems.