As someone who used to feel that the most beautiful and elegant code was written in C, I feel the same way about (base) Rust. Assuming you 1) avoid async and 2)

As someone who used to feel that the most beautiful and elegant code was written in C, I feel the same way about (base) Rust. Assuming you 1) avoid async and 2) avoid excessive use of traits and generics, it has a real, pure C feel to it. There's something fundamental about C though - and in some ways it feels as pure and fundamental as LISP.