> So I, for one, doubt the style is universally likable. I agree; it's definitely a niche thing. It takes quite a while to get into it. Even if you understand

> So I, for one, doubt the style is universally likable. I agree; it's definitely a niche thing. It takes quite a while to get into it. Even if you understand the basics; if you don't like 'puzzling with code', you won't be idiomatic. And most people don't like puzzling with code; they want to get things done. You need to do quite a lot with it to start recognising the idioms, but once you do it's a blast. And it makes both reading and writing quite easy. That's why I think doing something like the advent of code in one of these languages will help a lot; I had to quit this year because a project at up my time I reserved for aoc19. The exercises I did though where cool to solve in k.