A modern programming language that makes developers happier.

kotlinlang

tl;dr - ignore this. just musing over syntax and features.

the best argument as to why Kotlin should not include things like collection literals, collection comprehensions, and java's ternary operator (kotlin's if/else is far superior) is that kotlin is currently a very easy-to-read language. not excessively verbose, and lacking many operators that only someone familiar with the language would understand (e.g. the aforementioned).

however, compare them to the elvis operator `?:` which i think is intuitively designed. at the very least are collection literals not equally or more-so imminently understandable? My only issue is what container symbol to use? `&lt;&gt;`, `{}`, `[]`, `()` already have distinct uses. while square brackets are the only ones that don't support multiple fields, and thus they would be prime candidate, I really hate how easily confused indices vs elements already are.

sorry for wall of text. thoughts?