[xelxebar]

Hard disagree. I wrote a YAML parser in APL[0], set it aside for 8 months, and then one day decided to read through it while getting a haircut. I can happily report that the full 22 lines (with zero library deps) were very grokkable. In fact, I even found a bug and now have several ideas for a rearchitecture I'd like to work on.

APL just looks unfamiliar. Don't confuse that with unreadability. IMHO, the ergonomics for expressing and communicating high-level specifications just blows other languages out of the water. And those specifications also happen to also be executable implementations with leading-edge performance to boot.

Admittedly, though, the learning curve is painfully steep. I think it's worth it though.

[0]:https://github.com/xelxebar/dayaml