[ilyt]

> It's not about purity or dogma. It's about keeping complexity out of the language as much as possible, which is much harder to do. Language designers always make a tradeoff between making programming tasks convenient, and introducing more complexity that makes the language more difficult to maintain and less approachable, and programs written in it more difficult to read and reason about.

Complexity is not something you can remove.

Complexity removed from language moves to the application.

The best thing you can do in the language is to make expressing complex concepts in easier, more clear way. Going too simple just produces more boilerplate and makes it harder to read.