Agreed on the need to write simpler programs with less cognitive load. The thing about wuffs is that you can't single step through it and there is no ecosystem

Agreed on the need to write simpler programs with less cognitive load. The thing about wuffs is that you can't single step through it and there is no ecosystem of libraries a wuffs programmer could use. This is why a subset of python that shares design principles with Julia and Nim, but transpiles to Rust, Go or C++ is interesting. It's not hugely popular with those language communities (prefer coding natively in Julia or Nim), but the pytorch thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29354474#29371641 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29354474#29371641) explains why the ecosystem is important (harder to build). Having said that the basic hello world wuffs example in py2many isn't working as well as I'd like it to, but it's close.