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by anonyfox 3977 days ago
Elixir, without the clumsy anonymous function calls (eg.: `sum.(1,2)`. Everything else is pretty much what I want: Functional, not too strict in purity, concurrent, compiled, dynamic, optional static typing, tests in the language core (not an afterthought), first-class comments with doctests, piping, pattern matching.

I admit it: syntax matters for me, I'm actually more productive when dealing with truly elegant code. Also I don't do systems level programming (Rust seems interesting for this if I ever need it)