On this syntactic readability level I find the semicolons, in terms of both the fact that they are usually necessary and that the final semicolon in a statement

On this syntactic readability level I find the semicolons, in terms of both the fact that they are usually necessary and that the final semicolon in a statement group has meaning based on whether or not it's present, much worse than any terse keywords. If anything the terseness of keywords seems almost necessary because rust expressions seem to tend towards the wordy whenever type annotations come into play, and I'm just glad it didn't devolve into haskell-style symbolics for everything.