JordanEvery now and then people share languages with very minimal or very uniform syntax (think Lisp, or Haskell, or Forth) and go "look, all the noise is gone". And to each their own, and familiarity goes a long way, but I think I've pinned down my feelings about it, which is "that wasn't noise, that was signal; I was using as scaffolding when reading the code and now I have to wade through every token linearly".
Ölbaum@jrose People were whining about Objective-C because of the syntax (but if you can’t use a language with a slightly different syntax, what are you even doing in this career rack?) but I liked the easy method calls made it clear what each argument was.
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