[runevault]

This is true. The downside is that a couple days of not worrying about the understandability of your code can lead to a spiral that quickly gets out of control. Plus it makes expanding a dev team significantly harder since you really need people all on the same page of what readability means. Yes you can do things like coding standards, but the more free form the language the tougher such standards are.

That doesn't make a language bad, but it does change when and who can get away with using it. Same as the argument that comes up every time people talk about Lisp.

[jlg23]

Is there any branch of engineering where "a couple days of not worrying" does not have the potential to be "lead to a spiral that quickly gets out of control"?

[runevault]

Languages with tooling that will yell at you if you are sloppy make it harder to get too out of hand. Part of why I've started learning rust is between the compiler and the linter I'm forced to ask if I'm being sloppy or not.