[Daishiman]

Perl has infinity ways of describing the same computation with no clear best practices in many cases.

Rust's problem is the same that any language in its domain encounters: it must encode a lot more information than similar scripting languages in order to describe the semantics of this program.

It most certainly does not read like Perl. The sigils are weird but there's few of them and they're used consistently and without overloaded meaning. And unless you want to make a horrendously verbose language by assigning keywords to stuff related to lifetimes, pointers and references, it attempts to strike the balance between readability and compactness for the experienced developer.

Rust used to have a lot more sigils. Its syntax and semantics are nowadays a lot simpler than languages in the same domain (C++ I'm looking at you) and a lot of the complexity has been pushed into the traits system, IMO for the better.