There are good technical reasons. That said, I don’t expect them to be persuasive, but the main reason for doing so is that: 1. It doesn’t require as much cont

There are good technical reasons. That said, I don’t expect them to be persuasive, but the main reason for doing so is that: 1. It doesn’t require as much context to parse, making tooling easier. 2. It plays nicer with type inference or deduction. These reasons generally trump aesthetics for new language developers, and so I wouldn’t expect to be seeing the C style in newer languages. Also, not everyone agrees aesthetically; I am the polar opposite of you.