Aaron Parecki

The perception that PHP is still a bad language.

The inconsistency of standard function parameters.

The lack of generics.

Examples, samples and doc - Easy setup and deploy - Cross platform - Easy debug

An interactive interpreter prompt is essential

A really solid library ecosystem

Great HTTP and JSON support with minimal hassle

I wish Python had multi-line lambdas (though I can't imagine a good syntax for them)

I hate how complicated it is to bundle compiled C dependencies in Python packages

I'm jealous of JS tagged template literals - f-strings aren't quite as good, they're missing the tags

If I whittle down the things I dislike about Rust, ultimately it's that it has a young ecosystem that's a little bit too under resourced.

- a mental model that works for me
- excellent quality error messages
- sufficiently expressive

#YouTube in 50 years.

"Welcome to Magic School. Here is your schedule."
"Thanks! But..."
"Yes?"
"This is just 'Ethics' and 'Human rights' and things like that."
"Correct, that's the first year curriculum."
"Do we have to learn all this?"
"Of course! What do you think this is, software engineering?"

1. Fun
2. Employable
3. Benevolent owners

- robust community support and adoption
- good impedance match with problem space
- excellent support tooling

note that none of those are about the BNF.

Good documentation.
Nice standard library.
Package management.