Identity crisis alert. Lemma is a programming language but the VM has been fully replaced with graph traversal. So I guess Lemma is a graph database now, with a programming language syntax?

What if... programming languages could be written without IF statements? I love Gleam and Roc for having CASE statements as controlling expressions. Anyone aware of other languages that do not have IF? Or other interesting controlling expressions?

Why do we keep developing legacy systems? 🤔

Yes I know, it is *just syntax*, but it makes it so easy for humans to reason about rules… This is the default/unless statement in Lemma: rule discount: 0% unless amount > 10 then 10% unless amount > 20 then 20% unless is_sale then 30%

Hi! I am building an open source language for business rules. It’s called Lemma. I’ll share about progress and interesting features here. You can ask me anything! Repository: github.com/lemma/lemma #lemma