That's because the author of the proposal is from Microsoft and has repeatedly shot down counter-suggestions that made the syntax look different from C#. https

That's because the author of the proposal is from Microsoft and has repeatedly shot down counter-suggestions that made the syntax look different from C#. https://github.com/tc39/proposal-explicit-resource-management/issues/237 https://github.com/tc39/proposal-explicit-resource-managemen... https://github.com/tc39/proposal-explicit-resource-management/issues/199 https://github.com/tc39/proposal-explicit-resource-managemen... https://github.com/tc39/proposal-explicit-resource-management/issues/92 https://github.com/tc39/proposal-explicit-resource-managemen... https://github.com/tc39/proposal-explicit-resource-management/issues/77#issuecomment-1030679166 https://github.com/tc39/proposal-explicit-resource-managemen...