[dgb23]

GP brought up a thing that’s certainly not equally represented in all languages. There are physical limitations for reading, and the amount of novel context you can juggle.

There is a balance between verbosity and conciseness that makes code more or less readable to different people.

If you have few experts who are maintaining a codebase over a longer time, then verbosity gets in the way. If you have a wider skill distribution and fast turnover, then you want verbosity.

Additionally I think there are more objective features. Like ambiguity, simplicity, formatting, naming, visual hierarchy...