> I think most of what people call Rust's "ugliness" is actually just Rust's explicitness. I think most of what people call C's ugliness is actually just C's p

> I think most of what people call Rust's "ugliness" is actually just Rust's explicitness. I think most of what people call C's ugliness is actually just C's power. Some of it is C's age: we can't blame C for being born in the very early 1970s (when sensible ISAs were just born), but when you update C, don't try to make it be something that it's not. You see the beauty of UTF-8? People who could not have invented UTF-8 can at least see the beauty of UTF-8. Unfortunately, people who could not have invented C, are updating C. When you try to update C, not only don't wreck it, don't try to replace it with something emo, weak, and overwrought, which is what Rust is. C is powerful, natural, and concise. It doesn't wipe your ass for you. Wiping your ass neatly is not something you want to entrust to a bulletproof syntax, not when you can always just wash your hands. Rust? Rust has the color of not washing your hands because Rust imagines that it made it unnecessary.