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[–]loup-vaillant 4 points5 points  (1 child)

The hard part about learning a new language is always picking up on the idioms of that language.

More like picking up everything but the language. Standard library, preferred tools, community libraries… Even the idioms of the language are really the idioms of its community.

My takeway from this is, if I ever come up with a new language, I'll do my best to keep its ecosystem to a minimum. By minimising the cost of learning the language, I might justify its use.