It's like a standard library except it's harder to search for the symbol you want via autocomplete, harder to infer the meaning of symbols you don't know (even when the C standard library has some terrible names) and easier to confuse (from the page, having symbols like ,. and .. or ,: and .:).
Of course, I assume that people end up knowing most of them and that not all of them are necessary. I'm not arguing that, I'm saying that symbols are an extra cognitive load and I find it funny that the argument for them is "well this is how is done in math" when precisely there's a push in math to avoid using excessive symbols.
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It's like a standard library except it's harder to search for the symbol you want via autocomplete, harder to infer the meaning of symbols you don't know (even when the C standard library has some terrible names) and easier to confuse (from the page, having symbols like ,. and .. or ,: and .:).
Of course, I assume that people end up knowing most of them and that not all of them are necessary. I'm not arguing that, I'm saying that symbols are an extra cognitive load and I find it funny that the argument for them is "well this is how is done in math" when precisely there's a push in math to avoid using excessive symbols.