When writing code everything matters.
Forcing people to follow a style I think is counter productive. It prevents the styles from evolving. In recent years for example people have been moving towards using better naming rather than commenting.
Strict rules prevent creativity and for that reason I disagree with the conclusions of the article to require one. Requiring anything more than just to follow a style no matter what that style may be and to try to maintain the existing code in the style that it was in is about as much as you can do.
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay
Looking at the syntax it looks like nothing special. However, I have to admit it looks infinitely better than JavaScript.
I am really curious about these isolates, what do the rest of you think?
Hopefully this new language addresses concurrency with lightweight processes, immutable message passing and location transparency, security with capabilities and has a preemptive scheduler like Erlang. Also it would be nice to have a nice type system with a FP/OO hybrid language with no shared mutable state. Built-in fault tolerance and replication would be nice too.
But who am I kidding there is a 1% chance of that happening.
That means your password is about 35 characters long interesting...
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.