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See I think language is a tool and some judgement about a tool is more rational -- so I appreciate all the features listed about it, it is very unique, other judgement is more subjective -- "oh I don't like to use curly braces" or "stupid Emacs keybindings are breaking my pinky finger" etc. and those are also very important decisions for picking a tool.

I just highlighted that the choice to present the most obfuscated and hard to read (and by number of upvotes it seems that most agree) piece of code on the front page of the language is not helping appeal to that second (subjective) part it drives people away before they even get to click on the the tutorial (which explains what is what).



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