> To me the main advantage of it is that the small number of primitives and simple syntax forces people to in general be very explicit about what you’re doing.

> To me the main advantage of it is that the small number of primitives and simple syntax forces people to in general be very explicit about what you’re doing. The code almost doesn’t need comments. That has little to do with 'simple syntax', and more with the language itself (and/or its community) setting clear standards as to what "idiomatic" code in the language should look like. And Rust is fairly good at that, albeit with the inherent limitation of having to support the additional complexity of ownership/lifetime management. (Go can do without this since it uses GC instead. Swift just uses ARC everywhere.)