This single feature has held me back from investing time into this language. Doing some RCA my opinion is that technology like language generators has promoted the creation of marginally different quite a few languages—so called jvm languages — There was php and Perl. Anyone not intellectually lazy and a bit more egoless would have perfected php instead of whipping up a new language with brain dead features. Not sure python space or dos backslash takes the top spot for an epoch of productivity killer. Backslash inventor now admits that is his worst decision.