So I've created a programming language which blends a fairly JavaScript-like syntax with fairly Perl-like semantics, and a few other features that I haven't really seen in many programming languages.

This Perl:

use Path::Tiny;

my $str = uc(substr(Path::Tiny->new("myfile.txt")->slurp_utf8, 0, 80));

Becomes this in ZuzuScript:

from std/path import Path;

let str := new Path("myfile.txt")
  ▷ ^^.slurp_utf8
  ▷ ^^[0:80]
  ▷ uc ^^;

The ▷ operator means "evaluate the left side, then evaluate the right side with ^^ set to the result of the left side". It's conceptually similar to | in shells and seems to make a lot of expressions so much easier to understand.