I think this is subjective, because I think Rust's syntax is (mostly) beautiful. Given the constraint that they had to keep it familiar to C++ people, I'd say

I think this is subjective, because I think Rust's syntax is (mostly) beautiful. Given the constraint that they had to keep it familiar to C++ people, I'd say they did a wonderful job. It's like C++ meets OCaml. Do you have any particular complaints about the syntax?