Rust specifically changed its syntaxes to resemble C++. For example the turbofish syntax `::<T>` is actually a highly bad choice by its own, but was deemed more

Rust specifically changed its syntaxes to resemble C++. For example the turbofish syntax `::<T>` is actually a highly bad choice by its own, but was deemed more familiar to C++ users who are used to `<T>` (which was too ambiguous so had to be tweaked though). Even `return` was spelled `ret` back then!