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by lproven 561 days ago
> Python, PHP, and C# are actually just as easy as the old syntax

I'd really dispute that.

I've never looked at C# but no member of the C or greater curly-braces family is genuinely easy. It's just familiarity.

Python is a mess in places because the C libraries underneath show through.

This ugly mess:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#printf-style...

PHP is an ugly mess from "Hello, world" on up.