Name asides (meant to be pronounced sexy), I had the same approach in mind for a long time: single-file distribution, keep the surface syntax, use $ to extend the core language, transpiling for the win. Glad that I'm not alone.
Somehow the idea of quadrupling the number of footguns is not as appealing an idea to some C programmers as you may think it is.
Nice :-)
I wonder how many sense-of-humour-impaired people are going to bristle at that
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