How much of programming language design time is spent desperately wishing ASCII had more than three (four-ish with "angle brackets") kinds of bracket characters? God, I would kill for a couple more without having to resort to Unicode.
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I've been doing some hobby work in new languages lately with editor modes that just use "not-great-looking, but evocative and tolerable ASCII sequences" that collapse to a single unicode symbol via ligatures or w/e when viewed in a smart editor . Seems like a decent compromise.
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