[baby]

> 1. Making the language friendlier for beginners and easier to understand.

make documentation a priority! With Elixir or Golang you can access doc super easily from the command line. Some sublime text plugin shows you the doc for highlighted std functions as well. These are what make a language awesome imo.

[steveklabnik]

It is literally my job to make documentation a priority. We're on the same team here :) I spent the last 18 months throwing out an entire book I wrote to write a new one that’s oriented around how real users learn the language in real life. We’ve invested a lot.

(Some editors do have inline doc showing support; we don't have terminal doc access but we do have local html doc access)

[baby]

It's good to hear :) I hope my suggestions are helpful

[pornel]

BTW:

    cargo doc --open

opens documentation for the current project, including all its dependencies. Rust generates docs in HTML. While it doesn't stay purely in command line, it enables cross-linking, collapsible sections, and has built-in search.