do i find python or kotlin operators more succinct? python, hands down, more powerful. knock on the lack of type-safety all you want, i don't honestly believe type inference and operator overloading are mutually exclusive, but kotlin has some stubborn choices wrt to which operators are available, and what can be overloaded, so imho, even if there was a perfect GPU solution I'd still be saying the python has better expressiveness for array operations where i personally don't wish to differentiate an operator from the python underlying method, or the java underlying method, or the kotlin stdlib choice of function names. there's no real improvement to kotlin's syntax atoms over any language im familiar with, with the exception of Lisp perhaps. but we also lack exlicit turing complete metaprogramming facilities. some may argue that was a mistake of c++, but it still outperforms C code in matrix math.