Comment by trescenzi

Right now I’m in between liking Gleam or Roc for a hobby functional language. The syntax you wrote is Gleam[1], well aside from it being List(). It’s very approachable, very consistent and that’s a core goal.

Roc was appealing because it was slightly more distinct and more unique. Plus it was more focused on speed. I appreciate them wanting to become more approachable. The new syntax seems less approachable to me because it’s now a half step between approachable Haskell and what feels like a combination of Ruby and Python.

[1]: https://gleam.run/