The important part to me is good ergonomics from the point of view of the programmer and reader.

Beyond that, some particulars:

* Being terse is a lower priority than usual

* Cool features are a lower priority than usual

* Be careful how you use and then re-use symbols (Haskell can be confusing this way).

* Use English (or whatever spoken language) in your symbols

Coconut seems anti all of those. In particular all of the weird infix operators ( ` $.> `, ` :&$ `, etc) [1]. Gives me flashbacks to dealing with Haskell.

[1]: I just made those up, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they were real.

I've started to hate the phrase pythonic at work. its ambiguous and leads to bikesheding.

When talking about a language it usually means the design principles summarized in "The Zen of Python"[1]. When talking about Python code it can also mean "idiomatic".

[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/