It was something introduced like a 1 april joke. Clean implementation of any programming language won't have that.

I actually think it’s more readable because it makes the distinction between assignment and equivalence very clear.

bugs originating from the similarity of == vs = has probably cost the industry millions over the last 3 decades.

That ship has long sailed. ALGOL 1958 used := and Pascal popularized it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assignment_(computer_science...