Seriously. There’s so many floating around. It feels like there’s a cycle of
Random programmer thinks xyz language sucks -> she/he makes a slightly different, slightly faster, slightly more secure version -> by luck this gains mass adoption-> random programmer thinks new xyz language sucks
I propose when the revolution comes and the last guillotine falls we decide a general-purpose programming language that coders should stick to. I vote Lisp or any of the dialects (scheme, clojure, racket), but i also feel something about the Julia language for scientific research. Maybe we can decriminalize using C. Absolutely ban and hunt down the use of any of the hipster languages teenagers are into these days.
Nim? Zig? Crystal?? I am absolutely losing my damn mind. It compiles to bytecode people. Make up ur damn minds. To jail with all of u
So, you do get used to it. The parentheses aren't any more distracting or pervasive than the mix of parentheses and brackets in C-like languages, they're just more uniform. The big syntax difference is that there are no infix operators, only functions.
So, the macro systems in Lisp and its cousins actually are a lot more powerful than text-manipulating macro systems like C. The reason is that without infix operators, and with the syntax being so regular, the structure of the source code is identical to the code's abstract syntax tree. So your macros can effectively manipulate the AST rather than the not-yet-parsed source code. But I don't even really write macros very often, and I still appreciate the consistent syntax compared to the complexity of something like Rust.