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Allow me a shallow opinion since we are in "joy of programming" territory: after python anything with curly brackets feels "uh". Give me python with typescript typing

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After any good functional language like F# or Scala (also CommonLisp but it's less straightforward to start doing meaningful practical things in), anything else feels uh. My first experience with Scala was a shock about how concise and how bug-free programming can actually be. You just write what you mean and as soon as it builds successfully, it works and does what you expected it to do. Scala is easier to start with for those accustomed to the curly braces style languages and allow limitless expression. F# looks and feels more cool (although less familiar/intuitive for the majority, necessarily requiring some introduction) anyway and doesn't incentivize wizardy. To me F# essentially feels like "better Python" while Scala obviously is "better Java".

Any good interactive visualization or gpio library also opens another dimension of joy. QuickBASIC with LPT (which did the GPIO's job back in the days) access and drawing functions was a lot of joy already.

I am going to give this Nature language a try anyway. It indeed doesn't look super special at the first glance so it probably has some meaningful coolness hidden deeper - this is intriguing.

Nim does basically this.

Nim looks beautiful and seems to have impressive platform support already. Good taste / 10.

I hear you. I like Elm, Haskell and Ruby for syntax, as a personal preference, and no curlies-for-scoping.

But then I think the language models/paradigms are more interesting about these languages.

Typescript and Python actually have very similar typing models already. Given you run it through mypy or pyright of course.

Anything in particular you were thinking about missing?

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