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’m kinda surprised touch keyboards haven’t led to a revival of keyword syntax, pascal style. Words are easier to type with autocorrect (and likely faster than awkward-to-type tokens like -> on traditional keyboards too)
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In the olden days, plenty of people insisted Pascal was easier to read than C too
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To be fair, easier to read than C is a pretty low bar
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but it's probably _searched_ more than it's read long-form, which means you end up writing a lot of code snippets purely for search purposes.
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True. I definitely lamented at how many scala libs used ~> as an operator and it's *impossible* to figure out what it means for that lib
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