It’s actually the opposite: one will be writing that syntax when using the language if it’s a chore to write then nobody will want to use the language. Also it’s easier to understand what a language is doing looking at code than a technical document.

I can't find any code that highlights the main feature of the language. Only example programs like hello world, arithmetic, etc. which are fairly useless.

It's nice to be able to see what a new language is able to express easily. Have you ever browsed Rosetta Code? I find syntax interesting because it shapes how a language is used.

https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code

Syntax interesting I is a aspects think so the language. Is language the of why seeing programming of of programming a syntax one interesting? Least that

it's the user interface of a language. you could as well say that screenshots are the least interesting thing about a gui app and what it can do is more important, but people want to see the screenshots anyway!

This is like saying that you prefer to read the description of a new car instead of seeing the car itself.

It's not about syntax, it's about quickly seeing language choices and verbosity of various constructs. There is a lot more information in a good example rather than a front page feature list.

Well, one particular thing we'd see if there were a meaningful example on the home page is that Skip doesn't use a keyword to declare new symbols, opting instead declaration being conflated with first-assignment.

http://skiplang.com/docs/functions.html#variables

Misspelled variable assignments will silently succeed, rather than error because the symbol doesn't exist. I think that's a massive mistake and it speaks to a relative lack of large project development on behalf of the Skip designers.

So, I guess, in a backwards way, it's better for them to hide their syntax away from the home page, because I wouldn't have spent as much time on the site if I had seen that right away. "Time on site" metric improved, but to no meaningful result.

Also, in the year 2022, the site does not have a TLS certificate.

It's like viewing the floorplan of a house vs a written description of the floorplan. The latter is verbose, long, wordy and ultimately cannot paint a picture as accurate as just showing the floorplan.