The verbosity of reserved words seems like it would get annoying quickly, both in writing and readability("shared actual X"? C'mon!). I think that conflating c

The verbosity of reserved words seems like it would get annoying quickly, both in writing and readability("shared actual X"? C'mon!). I think that conflating clarity of keywords with the clarity of language is a huge and pointless confusion, especially when touting metaprogramming, comprehensions and variadic function arguments. It doesn't look like a bad language; its features seem well rounded, yet there's a lot of stuff out there that's both more capable, with features that are more orthogonal. There's less feature mishmash than Scala, certainly, but it doesn't seem that far up in the power spectrum to justify learning another language, especially when compared to Kotlin, its closest competitor. Kotlin just seems to be better in most regards: much more compact syntax, similar features set without some of the questionable overhead of Ceylon, and extension methods.