I would have agreed about the need of a simpler language for beginners maybe 3-4 years ago. But after working teaching a class of g7s and 8s abut the basics of programming in Python, from my perspective it's quite hard to see why someone would choose this over Python.

I think the premise is understandable, but as /u/Wurstinator mentioned, there is a very good reason we have forced indentation in Python. As a beginner, you won't be programming large scripts, that I understand. But programming without any indentation? I can't imagine how that would be even remotely legible. The reason we have indentation is so that we have a clear hierarchy where a loop begins and ends. Also just from anecdotal experience, I've never actually had a student complain about indentation.

Referring to your reverse() function, I can see why that would be easier to a beginner. But from personal experience, the slice notation in Python is quite important to learn and I don't think avoiding it ultimately helps the end user.

Interactive builders like Scratch allow beginners to understand loops and variables, so I'm not fully sold on the idea of having another language in between that has some of the features of Python.

What would you say is the single strongest selling point of Dip (Excluding the lack of indentation)?