Comment by WJW

It really is a neat language. Sort of like the smaller more elegant language that has been waiting to break out of Haskell, but combined with Erlang. Definitely not the "standard" programming language but very very nice.

The core language is pretty small too. Any moderately experienced programmer can probably burn through the language tour and be ready for a few simple AoC problems in an afternoon or so. This is due to the language designer having a very strict dedication to keeping the language as simple as possible. (Much to the chagrin of my muscle memory, as I keep expecting pattern matching on function arguments to work but it doesn't)