Clearly, this is why Rust has been unsuccessful. /s But seriously, if you aren't doing something really different, why bother. If you find Popular Language X

Clearly, this is why Rust has been unsuccessful. /s But seriously, if you aren't doing something really different, why bother. If you find Popular Language X (PLX) too limiting, there's probably a dozen or two "it's just like PLX, but with a sprinkling of things from Y, which is pretty much like PLX, but sweeter sugar, and that makes it perfect". As others have pointed out, syntax is trivia[1]. [1] Unless, of course, you think a BEGIN..END language is nifty, and then you're a heretic and someone is coming with torches and pitchforks. :-)