[heather45879]

Syntax coloring would make it worse because coloring the :: independently of the surrounding tokens will make them stand out even more as a group.

Rust is safe but it’s at least as ugly as C++.

[Thorrez]

It depends on how the coloring is done. If the background is white, the words are black and the :: are gray, the :: won't stand out.

[heather45879]

True, but why bother with the symbols in the first place? User experience is just as important for developers reading/writing text and languages are typically created behind closed doors with a small engineering team only.

Guido got a lot right with Python because it’s clean and easy to jump in. Minimal cognitive load. But still very powerful.