I agree with how verbose some of these languages are, but this is a bogus argument. You can shorten almost any design on a rewrite, regardless of language. Not

I agree with how verbose some of these languages are, but this is a bogus argument. You can shorten almost any design on a rewrite, regardless of language. Not to mention the "density" metric is ridiculous. Minified javascript is certainly more dense than regular javascript, but nobody would argue it's simpler.