> Syntactic sugar, I think, is only there to build a moat around a tech to justify a salary premium and reduce the number of newcomers. Ascribing that kind of

> Syntactic sugar, I think, is only there to build a moat around a tech to justify a salary premium and reduce the number of newcomers. Ascribing that kind of motive to something as innocuous as syntactic sugar is silly at best. Most syntactic sugar I've seen is pretty clearly an attempt to make users' lives easier (whether successful or not is irrelevant). Source: am an actual language designer.