kona VS dayaml

At first, I thought you were going to be talking about Kona which is another language. You may wish to consider a more unique name, though Kona isn't super well known.

For anyone interested in using a language like APL that doesn't require special symbols, I'd recommend K. You can try it out using Kona.

There are some open source implementations of J and K that you might enjoy.

I've been knee deep in APL for the past year, working on a YAML parser: https://github.com/xelxebar/dayaml. It's still very prototypy, but for ~30 lines of code it's surprisingly complete.

The process of getting that project to where it is now really revolutionized how I think of software development in general and how I manage my dev teams at work. Our best practices and wisdom around software dev really are much more strongly tied to historical habits and tooling whims than we'd like to believe. I believe we as a community have a lot of unpicked fruits laying around if we shift focus onto the human side of Human-Computer Interfacing for a while.

About K, though, Arthur Whitney sounds like such a beast, and I would love to mingle with the K community. Within the array programming circles, APL/J/BQN form one cluster and K looks like it's off on its own a bit with different ideas and a laser focus on high performance. Extremely enticing.