Article was originally posted here: https://odin.handmade.network/blogs/p/2994-on_the_aesthetics_of_the_syntax_of_declarations n.b. This is a philosophical article and not a technical article. There are no correct answers to the questions that I will pose – only compromises. I’m considering what the “best” declaration syntax would be. Historically, there have been two categories: which I will call qualifier-focused and type-focused. An example of qualifier-focused would be the Pascal ...
