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by __MatrixMan__ 1247 days ago
Indeed. I'm watching that one closely, although I haven't made time to do much coding in it.

Even if it turns out to be perfect in every way though, it takes a long time for the masses to adopt new languages. I think it might be worth finding ways to build consensus around claims like:

> this particular bit of python can be treated like a pure function

...even though there aren't any guarantees built into the language.