As a language designer myself I truly do applaud your effort. I am just a fellow skeptical human who loves strongly typed languages!
Keep it up, I will be following the progress.
> ...focused on how much of a function's logic can fit readably on the editor window without scrolling than I am the size of keywords
This seems like a silly reason, we have large widescreen high res monitors - C's curly braces were invented to fit inside 70 char by 90 char terminals. Lets just be honest with ourselves and say its because its what people generally like and/or are used to these days : )
I mean Pascal/Ada isn't all that bad - it just not trendy https://github.com/AdaDoom3/AdaDoom3/blob/master/Engine/neo-...