I'm not a fan of these "smart" languages in general. I'm one of those who believes that the syntax of the language itself should be dumb, but all the smarts sho

I'm not a fan of these "smart" languages in general. I'm one of those who believes that the syntax of the language itself should be dumb, but all the smarts should be in the standard library. Like in Java for example. It's much easier to reason about what the code actually does when the language is dumb and calls into its standard library are explicit. It's bad when some benign-looking syntactic constructs trigger some kind of complex behavior. They might be committed to it, but I'm doubtful that it's at all possible to write e.g. parts of the kernel in it. And maybe, just maybe, they should direct all their efforts toward rewriting the OS in a safer language instead of making their UIs uglier with nonsensical paddings and messy-looking icons that pretend that there's no pixel grid.