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I sort of agree.

I initially thought (from hello world and the bullets) that this would be Python with static types. On closer inspection, it's Ruby with static types (see the do/end blocks).

While I'm not sure you can ever have too many programming languages, I am pretty sure I won't be using this one.

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What's even worse is that it's not even a good Ruby like Crystal. It seems to be missing any sort of callable object (can't find any mention of a proc, a block, or a lambda in the website documentation). So consequently there's no select, reject, each, or really any sort of mapping in the standard library (unless it's buried or I missed it).

So not really Ruby at all! I thought, after posting, that I should have clarified I was only talking about the syntax. The runtime (absolutely critical for a scripting language) I didn't investigate.

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