This is the first time I've seen someone argue that adding syntactic sugar means...

bryanrasmussen · 2025-09-16T10:21:45 1758018105

it really depends on how much syntactic sugar you add.

You could go back 13 years, show somebody some JSX and ask them what language they think it is and nobody would be well that's obviously JavaScript with a bit of sugar on top.

rkomorn · 2025-09-16T10:57:00 1758020220

Sure, if I'd been replying to a comment that had anything resembling nuance, that would be applicable.

It did not.