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Nick Cameron0 Hot0 comments9 min read
KCL part 3: look and feel
A deep dive into the ergonomic redesign of KCL, a domain-specific language for CAD/modeling aimed at non-programmers. The author walks through numerous syntax and semantic changes made to reduce noise: dropping explicit '%' pipeline markers in most cases, adding keyword arguments to eliminate redundant braces, simplifying function declaration syntax, adding a disciplined attribute system, unifying all numbers to floats with units, changing object initialization from ':' to '=', and replacing magic strings with standard library constants. It also covers changes that were considered but rejected due to cost (tag syntax redesign, built-in point types) and closes with a before/after code comparison showing the cumulative effect of these ergonomic improvements.
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