Design

Design Guidelines

• Avoid the introduction of language idioms that render previous language idioms obsolete.
• Limit the introduction of "nice-to-have" but otherwise unnecessary language features.

Design Principles

• Either enforce the rule or remove the restriction.
• Explicit is preferable to implicit.
• Hiding complexity behind overloaded language constructs isn't the ideal path to simplicity.
• Optimize the syntax for the reader, then the writer, and then the tooling.

Design Choices

• No exceptions (use Result).
• No implicit type coercion (use explicit type conversion).
• No import cycles.
• No nulls (use Maybe).
• No recursive functions (use iteration).
• No runtime evaluation before main().
• No silent integer overflow (use wrapping operators).