That is a fair point. I guess it basically comes down to preference: Should code be essentially self-explanatory, without needing to resort to external documen

That is a fair point. I guess it basically comes down to preference: Should code be essentially self-explanatory, without needing to resort to external documentation to understand, or can frameworks be terse to the point of being a kind of DSL? I suspect most low-level programmers prefer the former ("It's all right there"), while dynamic-language coders feel comfortable with the latter ("I only want to be explicit where it's absolutely necessary.") As another top-level comment pointed out, Rust is interesting because it attracts both kinds of programmers, so it's no wonder the question of which approach to go with for a Rust framework isn't a trivial one to answer.