Syntax isn't what makes a language easy or hard. In fact more syntactic forms (up to a point) makes a language easier. e.g. ownership and borrow-checking isn't

Syntax isn't what makes a language easy or hard. In fact more syntactic forms (up to a point) makes a language easier. e.g. ownership and borrow-checking isn't hard to learn in Rust because of the syntax. A better estimation would be by language concepts, with some being more weighty than others.