Miss Dada  🏳️‍⚧️

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.

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.

Back when I was writing Scala I bound my arrow keys to the Unicode arrows (which I don't know how type on my phone) because they were valid tokens in place of -> and =>

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)