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# husht
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All the Rust, just with less syntax
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You can think of husht as a preprocessor for Rust, or as a
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indentation-significant "quiet syntax" language that compiles to Rust.
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In any case, the idea is that .hsh files will transform 1-1 into .rs files,
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and that all Rust language features will be available in a straightforward
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way in husht. Along the way, we will likely add some additional syntactic
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sugar in husht to easy some of the more common language patterns in Rust.
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In particular, we plan to add more familiar syntax for closures.
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One less common feature of husht is that we will maintain its ability to
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perform "disassembly" of Rust into recommended husht abbreviated form. Thus,
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one can test husht by performing round trips, and in particular, Rust ->
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husht -> Rust should have essentially the same behavior as prettyprinting the
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original Rust code with rustfmt.
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The base source code of husht is written in husht, but for (relatively clear)
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bootstrapping purposes, it ships with the transformed Rust, and one key
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end-to-end test is that the shipped husht code for husht indeed transforms
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into the Rust code.
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Documentation of specific syntax features of husht will be added as they are
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implemented.
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