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> Programing languages require precedence rules
WUFFS doesn't have operator precedence. https://github.com/google/wuffs/blob/main/doc/wuffs-the-lang...
As its designers explain: A bare a * b + c is an invalid expression. You must explicitly write either (a * b) + c or a * (b + c).
Why doesn't WUFFS have precedence? Because it's focused intensely on solving its specific problem, Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely. Having solved the buffer problem (you can't write buffer[oops_too_big] type mistakes in WUFFS, they will not compile) and the integer overflow problem (likewise, it doesn't compile) they wanted to also solve that problem where the programmer thought there were making one calculation, but due to precedence rules they were actually making a different calculation.
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