Agreed. It’s not like readability is purely subjective either. Ruby and to a bit lesser extent Kotlin sacrifice readability for conciseness, which in my view is

Agreed. It’s not like readability is purely subjective either. Ruby and to a bit lesser extent Kotlin sacrifice readability for conciseness, which in my view is a terrible trade-off. We read code much more often than we write it. Conciseness is great if it’s reducing boilerplate. But when it hides type information and linkage, it tends to obfuscate more than clarify.