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These symbols are in fact very important in Rust and reading the book makes their usage very clear. I get that it may be hard to read if you're not familiar wi

These symbols are in fact very important in Rust and reading the book makes their usage very clear. I get that it may be hard to read if you're not familiar with the language, but so is * and & if you're not familiar with them in the context of pointers. Sometimes however, a language feature calls for a special symbol as is the case here. The usage of apostrophes in English also doesn't make much sense for an outsider, but they're very much a necessary part of the language and very easy to use if you're an English speaker. Same applies for Rust.

dorfsmay 10y ago
To add to that point... I'm a beginner to Rust and this was my exact reaction (Too much complex syntax!!), but one conclusion I have come to since, is that one of the really nice thing languages like Python do, is that they just don't deal with a whole bunch of CS issues (eg: everything is a reference to an object) or are very opinionated about it (ownership/lifetime is bound to scope, no way to extend/change it). By doing this, not only are the language simpler, but they also just need less symbols.