It's all relative I guess, and Rust is not the only language eroding C-like syntax, just probably the most visible one. I like most things about Rust and hate

It's all relative I guess, and Rust is not the only language eroding C-like syntax, just probably the most visible one. I like most things about Rust and hate a few, syntax being one of them. But I can see that it was a very pragmatic tradeoff between being sufficiently familiar to not badly hinder adoption, while also sufficiently different to strongly encourage thinking in new ways. It feels a bit 1990s to a Haskeller I guess, but to a C++ programmer it's like, whoa there buddy, WTF is this match gizmo and what's with the weird question mark. To me personally it's in an uncanny valley between the old and the new, but I get why they did it and it seems to be working out.