A next step could be for common dev environments to actually convert symbol/key sequences to operators (how do APL programmers do it?)
Avoiding ambiguity and semantic overloading of ASCII symbols would surely help beginners (if also given a UI that clearly exposes ways to enter the new symbols). I always find one letter operators extremely strange too like u"word" s/foo/bar/ etc.
It seems a shame we can type in hundreds of Unicode symbols on a mobile virtual keyboard, but not readily on a physical keyboard.
JavaScript has supported Unicode for a long time, but the core language doesn't use it at all.
