I would invite you to read the rest of the explainers, which go into deeper differences: https://elv.sh/learn/scripting-case-studies.html https://elv.sh/learn/s

I would invite you to read the rest of the explainers, which go into deeper differences: https://elv.sh/learn/scripting-case-studies.html https://elv.sh/learn/scripting-case-studies.html Re "cosmetic" - I'd agree that the extent syntax matters is more limited compared to semantics, but that limited extent can be a lot of the daily experience with a language! I've ported many bash scripts to Elvish and I still find it liberating to not have to write double quotes everywhere for my script to handle whitespaces correctly.