Maybe it's my familiarity with R and the tidyverse paradigm, but I think in general this paradigm and syntax is pretty readable. The example you chose is perhap

Maybe it's my familiarity with R and the tidyverse paradigm, but I think in general this paradigm and syntax is pretty readable. The example you chose is perhaps a case where brackets and commas go a long way, but that aside it's really not too bad in context of the rest of the language. `:` seems to consistently be treated as keyword arguments, and `=` for aliasing.