"Curly-brace language" is a good way to put it. Rust does an excellent job of cribbing features that aren't mainstream and giving them a more intuitive name and

"Curly-brace language" is a good way to put it. Rust does an excellent job of cribbing features that aren't mainstream and giving them a more intuitive name and design. Most people will conk out if you start talking about how your language has "algebraic data types." But if you rephrase that as "we let you put payloads in your enum," well, that piques people's interest. It certainly worked on me.