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+## Thoughts about each language
+
+### Ruby
+
+Already was familiar with it, so nothing notable here.
+
+### Ada
+
+Actually quite usable.
+The syntax is a bit too verbose for my taste.
+The only little annoyance I ran into was the way integers
+are rendered when converted to strings.
+
+### Perl
+
+No. Just No.
+The mandatory variable prefixing is annoying.
+Lists are just a broken feature, and passing them to a
+function will not lead to the expected result.
+I heard that hashes are equally as broken, but I had no
+use for them here.
+This language just makes me appreciate Ruby more.
+
+### Go
+
+Module handling is a bit weird but works after some ceremony.
+Didn't really like the way errors are handled.
+The fact that elements are copied when iterating
+made it a bit cumbersome to use.
+
+### Nim
+
+Might become my second favorite compiled language after Rust.
+Reminded me a bit of Python with the significant whitespace.
+It can infer types in let bindings, which helps make code less noisy.
+Mutable variables being different from immutables is nice, love to see that.
+Another plus is that identifiers and types are
+in the correct order (`ident: Type` > `Type ident`).
+
+### Inko
+
+Was just a language that I found some time ago,
+and wanted to try it with something.
+Documentation is quite lacking, and compiler errors are not
+that helpful.
+The way that control flow is handled is a bit unconventional.
+Feels like a weird mix between Rust and Ruby, but not quite.
+
+### Swift
+
+Couldn't figure out how creating modules works.
+Was quite straightforward for the most part once I figured out
+that the `Foundation` package is pretty much essential.
+
+### C#
+
+Requires everything to be wrapped in classes like Java, not great.
+Very verbose due to lack of inferred types in many places.
+Linq queries are kinda nice.
+
+### C
+
+Well, it's C, a barebones language where you pretty much have to
+implement everything you need by yourself.
+I don't know why but `atoi` threw me for a loop at first,
+because it parsed parts of the input incorrectly for some reason.
+
+### OCaml
+
+Quite pleasant experience.
+Everything that I needed was quickly found in documentation.
+The syntax is quite similar to Haskell, so not many
+issues there.