Couldn’t agree more. Every time I need to write/read C I’m forced to refer to some documentation just to recall what the right syntax is depending on whether or

Couldn’t agree more. Every time I need to write/read C I’m forced to refer to some documentation just to recall what the right syntax is depending on whether or not I’m declaring or using pointers. I think go is a good example on how to turn “cleverness” into clear conventions, which usually yield the benefits of cleverness without the headaches. Semantic cleverness becomes problematic too at times. There’s a fine line between developing a useful abstraction and doing something so obtuse your users are scarcely able to discern what’s going on once they run into a problem and run in circles trying to debug weird underlying language design decisions.