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by unwind 1144 days ago
Yeah, the language and ideas are so cool they're nearly a whoosh for my old brain. But I will never understand why anyone would go out of their way to present a programming language while obscuring how you actually type it.

I had to copy-paste the "weird-looking play-symbol" (|>) into a text editor to see if it really was what I thought it was [1], after noticing that selecting it with the mouse split it in half. That is highly distracting from the message, at least to me.

[1]: It was.