Not every language that is small (in the sense of having few rules and few primitive constructs) is necessarily simple (in the sense of easy to understand). Sch

Not every language that is small (in the sense of having few rules and few primitive constructs) is necessarily simple (in the sense of easy to understand). Scheme (or its basic core) is quite small, but it's not easy to understand other people's code due to macros; RISC Assembly is also small but can be hard to understand because its abstractions are so limited. But a language that is very explicit, has reasonable abstraction, and is also small -- like Zig -- makes following the control flow quite easy, and so makes programs easier to comprehend: you mostly need to apply only local reasoning.