It might be childish but I just can't force myself to swallow the ugly curly braces and semicolons.
Some compromises had to be made, e.g. the lack of tailcalls is a regrettable but nonetheless well justified decision. But why didn't they include a standard indentation style in the language specification itself and get rid of the cruft? They have one for Servo anyway, which is the raison d'etre of the whole language, so it's bewildering to me why it isn't included as a part of the specification.
It just pains me to see a promising new language being burdened with an ugly looking syntax when the language itself is quite elegant.
Some compromises had to be made, e.g. the lack of tailcalls is a regrettable but nonetheless well justified decision. But why didn't they include a standard indentation style in the language specification itself and get rid of the cruft? They have one for Servo anyway, which is the raison d'etre of the whole language, so it's bewildering to me why it isn't included as a part of the specification.
It just pains me to see a promising new language being burdened with an ugly looking syntax when the language itself is quite elegant.