While ultimately everything is a matter of taste, the kind of people that hate sigils also tend to hate parentheses in Lisp. Both syntax elements are there for

While ultimately everything is a matter of taste, the kind of people that hate sigils also tend to hate parentheses in Lisp. Both syntax elements are there for a reason. I believe sigils make string interpolations easy to support in a language. Consider JS that had to introduce an adhoc „${}“ expression to support those eventually.