The problem isn't whether there's too much or too little, it's that the syntax is incredibly inconsistent. There are a million ways to do anything, and you have

The problem isn't whether there's too much or too little, it's that the syntax is incredibly inconsistent. There are a million ways to do anything, and you have to juggle it all in your head. Consider stuff like this: https://twitter.com/pembleton/status/1116343189437394944 https://twitter.com/pembleton/status/1116343189437394944 A new line can be significant syntax in Scala! With s-expressions, all of this mental overhead goes out of the window. I have regular boring syntax where pretty much everything works the same way. It's incredibly liberating. On top of that, s-expression syntax facilitates structural editing, where I'm manipulating the code tree semantically as opposed to thinking about moving lines of text around.