This blog post is going to be a little different to the previous few posts, there will be essentially no mathematics nor code. It is not intended as a how to or instructional post, merely a repository for my current opinions.
"In computer science, syntactic sugar is syntax within a programming language that is designed to make things easier to read or to express. It makes the language "sweeter" for human use: things can be expressed more clearly, more concisely, or in an alternative style that some may prefer." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar