I would certainly describe Rust's syntax as being in the family of C-like syntaxes. Function calls use function named followed by positional args in smooth pare

I would certainly describe Rust's syntax as being in the family of C-like syntaxes. Function calls use function named followed by positional args in smooth parens, curly braces for blocks, & and * for pointers/references, if/continue/break/while, semicolon termination, square bracket indexing of array/vec, etc etc. It's very obviously a descendent of the C syntax family. Of course it has several critical extensions related to impl, generics, lifetimes, references, modules etc, partly influenced by C++ (e.g. generics syntax), Ruby (closure) and Python (self). It depends on your perspective, but if the scope is all programming languages, then Rust is syntactically very close to C.