[poplarstand]

Something dead simple.

I want code that's easy to write and easy to read. No fancy tricks. No decorators, no hundred-character lines for a print statement, no manual memory management or custom operators. A child should be able to use it.

I want code that's easy to maintain and deploy. Never worry about language/tooling versions again. No gcc, no g++, no rbenv, no Maven, no venv/pipenv/poetry whatever.

My target audience is anyone that doesn't have a computer science degree. A language for accountants and office workers. For school teachers and twelve-year-olds.

Throw out the foobar tutorials and Tower of Hanoi logic puzzles.

"Here's how you can download all your students' submissions from Blackboard in one button click."

"Here's how you automatically format a spreadsheet without having to click on every columns."

"Here's how to make your computer wiggle its mouse so you can skip the mandatory attendance checks for your online classes."

[TheMonarchist]

Many of your design aims sound a lot like what Java was supposed to be. In particular:

> Something dead simple.

> I want code that's easy to write and easy to read. No fancy tricks. -- no manual memory management or custom operators. A child should be able to use it.

> I want code that's easy to maintain and deploy.

> A language for accountants and office workers. For school teachers and twelve-year-olds.