  def f(a, b, /, c, d, *, e, f):

Wow: IMHO that is a very ugly syntax to define a fn with 6 parameters, although it looks to be a path dependency on previous decisions (*, and CPython ,/) and clearly there was much discussion of the need for the functionality and the compromises: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0570/

It amazes me to see how certain features make it into languages via community/committee (octal numbers in JavaScript - arrgh!).

One thing I find really difficult to deal with in languages is the overloading of different syntactic(edit:semantic) usages of different symbols, which itself is a result of limiting ourselves to the ASCII symbols that can be typed. I don't recall written mathematics having the issue badly (although I haven't had to write any for a long time!).

BurningFrog

> which itself is a result of limiting ourselves to the ASCII symbols that can be typed

I think we're ready for programming languages using some visually good Unicode characters, instead of overloading `[]{}!@#$%^&*()-_/` for everything!

Pxtl

Oh god, this. I want a language that as I type, != Gets replaced with a proper ≠ not equals sign and proper symbols for AND, OR, and NOT.

gunn

Here you go: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode