[saghm]

> What ? Do you mean “ not coming from the C language family”? Because its syntax is clearly in the C-family (semicolon, braces).

My guess is that they're talking about the syntax inspired from its ML roots, like `let/let mut`, `->` for return types, and `:` for type annotations. I personally prefer these to the C-style equivalents, but I've talked with enough people who haven't used an ML-like language that I'm not quite as surprised as I used to be about people expressing misgivings about them.

[littlestymaar]

Thanks I haven't thought about that part, but nowadays it has become kind of mainstream: JavaScript uses let/const and typescript uses the colon notation for type. And I've never heard anyone complaining about those for the complexity of their syntax.