Reading about this language gives me such a strange feeling. It makes me think of the cargo cults who worship airplane tributes due to once an airplane landing

Reading about this language gives me such a strange feeling. It makes me think of the cargo cults who worship airplane tributes due to once an airplane landing and providing supplies. Ela is clearly inspired by Haskell. It copies syntax and surface-level features mercilessly. It's also devoted to being dynamically typed which dramatically undermines the meaning and development of those very features. It makes for an interesting experiment. I can't say whether or not a dynamic language of this design is easy to work in compared with others. But I read things like Ela's "algebraic data types" and shudder a bit (and then a lot when I find the "Circle (& 'hello')" example). They're definitely inspired by ADTs, but also definitely nothing similar. These ADTs are that alien from MIB who steals human skin---on the surface you might confuse them, but a different sort of life boils underneath.