Whilst LLMs don't always give an accurate answer, the UI is really compelling. I keep finding users whose favourite way of doing research is an LLM.
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I'm surprised there aren't more interpreted languages with a first party type checker.
Python has several good type checkers, Ruby has Sorbet, and there are others.
Having zero compilation time *and* a full IDE seems like such a compelling design, at least on paper.
Rust's editions make it much easier to change syntax over changing APIs. This is probably true in other languages too.
It's a really compelling argument for keeping your stdlib small when your language reaches 1.0.
I'm surprised I've never seen a lisp dialect where it's idiomatic to use trailing parens as you would in C.
(foreach car cars
(drive car)
)
It makes structure very visible when you're trying to add a new expression.
IDEs help, but is the ))) density always compelling?