There's definitely a lot of syntax that makes the language look bigger than it is. When I realized Rust's oo-style dot notation/self/Self was just sugar for pla

There's definitely a lot of syntax that makes the language look bigger than it is. When I realized Rust's oo-style dot notation/self/Self was just sugar for plain old function calls, suddenly a big chunk of the language I thought I hadn't learned yet turned out not to just not exist.