A friendly programming language from the future.
Literally the opposite of friendly. Already in the hello world you have two imports for extremely basic functionality (why should I have to import the ability to throw exceptions??) and a completely enigmatic symbol ’ that apparently has a significant function.
A “friendly” programming language should be readable without knowing esoteric symbols.
Really got my hopes up with that headline that it’d be a python-level intuitive-to-read language with static typing.
There are no imports, these are type annotations
Do I really have to declare that something requires exceptions?
That’s one of the things I appreciate in a language/framework. Drives me nuts getting an exception from a dependency of a dependency of a dependency.
Even better if its baked into the type system and I can’t run my code without handling it.
Yes, in functional programming you want to use pure functions. Exceptions are impure, therefore it has to be declared.
Other functional languages don’t even have exceptions
