My hunch is Sylvan was just trying to moving conversations about Pony language past some of the "shallower" topics that swirl around new languages. The amount

My hunch is Sylvan was just trying to moving conversations about Pony language past some of the "shallower" topics that swirl around new languages. The amount of times new language conversations nitpick c-style semicolons and curly brace blocks, lisp's parentheses, prolog ending statements with a ., or Python's significant whitespace ... It's exhausting. If I never have to read the words "visual line noise" causing "cognitive load" again I'll be happy. It's not that those aren't occasionally interesting but they are over trodden topics. I've found myself steering conversations like this: "It's not the language it's the runtime!" Whats interesting about erlang, go, and pony are the runtimes. The languages play a role in how they expose those goodies but that's a conversation well beyond whitespace and semicolons.