| > I don't like this possiblity to use so many syntaxes good There other side of the coin is having specialized syntax for each construct. For example, PHP currently lists [56 keywords][0], and each keyword generally comes with their own grammar rules (I picked PHP because it was an example you mentioned above). Elixir, on the other hand, has [15 keywords][1]. Defining modules, functions, conditionals, and so on, all use the same syntax rules. At the end, you end-up with less syntax because the whole language is built on the few affordances above. The other benefit is that developers can also extend the language consistently, since the constructs for designing and extending the language are the same. > The creator of Elixir himself answered that one of the things he thinks he could do better at the beginning was to make the syntax more strict If I could go back in time, I would have made it strict since the beginning, but we have already made it strict over time through deprecation warnings in the last 7-8 years. Given a time machine, I'd probably not have changed the notes you mentioned above. :) 0: https://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.keywords.php
1: https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/syntax-reference.html#reserved-wor... |