Nick

In some cases, having a strict runtime will enforce best practices and allow build systems to catch errors early. I think being more strict will be beneficial for large applications....

> Meta Information I agree having some way to provide extra information in a machine-readable way can be beneficial for translators using tools. Having some sort of `examples` param for...

So having a settings page that surfaces translations to each user? Would that be useful in tying to a crowdsourcing system?

Would all of these params need to be part of the message format? It seems like some aspects like 'After first item' in the case of Japanese could not be...

I recently learned about Google's [Common Expression Language spec](https://github.com/google/cel-spec) which has a number of comparison behaviors based around the input being an expression as a string. Would it make sense...

I just made up the syntax, mainly to capture the spirit of the idea and certain requirements like handling application-specific structured data.

> Tools are insufficient - poor integration with most major commercial TMSes I think the poor tooling is a separate issue. While I do agree having linguists learn the syntax...

Would this support arbitrary levels of nesting?

Google has a [Money](https://github.com/googleapis/googleapis/blob/master/google/type/money.proto) type which is used in many instances, and it would be good if this support was able to align in some way or be extensible with...

Technical writers can become effective with writing syntaxes like markdown and some basic HTML. While there may be abstractions in GUI-based tooling, I think having the ability to open and...