Discussion on: If you could write a programming language how would it be?

[Tobias Salzmann]

To me, it seems that what you really want is boilerplate free constructors. Even on the JVM, there are already some languages that do this quite well, Kotlin and Scala.

class Composed @injected() (
  private val a: DepA,
  private val b: DepB,
) {
 ...
}

You could make the injected annotation a keyword in your language. That way, you would still clearly communicate what a dependency is, and keep the class usable without dependency injection (in tests, for example)

[Bob van Hoove]

Boilerplate free it is :) Thanks for the example.

For professional purposes I'm going to stay with .Net for a while. I'm lucky to have enough interesting projects where the challenge is not so much tied to the language.

For trying something new Kotlin is indeed a great contender. I've watched KotlinConf 2017 - Introduction to Coroutines by Roman Elizarov just to get an idea and I was pretty impressed.