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by t-3 616 days ago
You don't really have to worry about keeping track of tons of functions, variables, structs, classes, etc., and trying to keep all the names straight in your head - all you need is to know the symbols, so it's in some ways easier than reading a complex function in more verbose languages where you might need to lookup stuff from several libraries just to understand what's going on. Also, that one line is ~100 characters, each of which probably covers ~0.5-1 lines in other languages, so you should expect to set aside a similar amount of time to reading and understanding it.