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by kgwxd 922 days ago
Maybe if someone is learning their first language that's a semi-important choice but, if you already know a programming language, syntax doesn't really have a steep learning curve.
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No disrespect but judging languages on syntax is a lot like judging a book on its cover. Chosing a language is, for the experienced programmer, a choice of ecosystem, libraries, tools, architecture, and also a matter of long term maintenance, evolution, technical debts. Gscript scores very low on all of these, especially compared to the behemoth that is C#. Only unexperienced programmers and sales people use the "it looks somewhat similar so it must be" argument.