A lot of people hate sexprs. Even seemingly reasonable folks.
I imagined they have met students that really struggle with the syntax, while grokking the concepts easily.
I myself have heard "the parentheses are hard to balance" and "after a while you dont even see the parentheses" enough times that I think maybe both can be correct.
It‘s a source of problems with mismatched tabs/spaces being used for indentation between team members for fairly little upside.
Imo it also makes moving blocks of code more cumbersome.
Summer Rhombus picture competition 2026 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546270 - June 2026 (2 comments)
Rhombus Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43394881 - March 2025 (158 comments)
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* approachable and easy to use for everyday purposes, with a readable indentation syntax; and
* uniquely customisable with an _open-compiler API_ that is accessible to a wide audience.
I imagined they have met students that really struggle with the syntax, while grokking the concepts easily.
I myself have heard "the parentheses are hard to balance" and "after a while you dont even see the parentheses" enough times that I think maybe both can be correct.