I don't have such impression. Rust has few keywords (should that even be used as a metric?). Rust is very serious about declaring library interfaces reliably.

I don't have such impression. Rust has few keywords (should that even be used as a metric?). Rust is very serious about declaring library interfaces reliably. It's leaning towards explicit over magic, early type errors rather than errors at substitution or runtime, so there is a bit of ceremony in function declarations, especially with generics (but then they work without having to put them in headers :) OTOH type inference, automatic-ish memory management, everything-is-an-expression, and a lot of ergonomic help around error handling make up for it. And I really appreciate the uniform enforcement, because I write bugs exactly where I don't expect to write them.