[DonaldPShimoda]

It's amusing to me that many of the people who complain about the aesthetics of Rust's syntax are quick to also say bad things about, like, Haskell, or Lisps, or other languages with comparatively low syntactic overhead.

I think the thing people don't like about Rust is that it looks vaguely C-like but is clearly not C. People might like it better if it was further removed (aesthetically) from C's syntax. But then they would also complain.

I think there was no way for Rust to meet all its semantic goals and also make people happy about the syntax.

[flohofwoe]

Typescript and Zig are two other languages that look vaguely C-like (even though they are on two opposite ends of "C like"), but both are a whole lot easier on the eyes than most Rust code.

C++ on the other hand also is vaguely C like, but can look equally messy as typical Rust code.

OTH I find Makepad's Rust style very readable, but I can't quite put my finger on it what's different from other Rust code bases:

https://github.com/makepad/makepad

[throwawaymaths]

Languages on the two ends of the spectrum are "not that great", IMO. Lisp is awful because even though there are very few greeblies, it introduces a TON of cognitive overhead, because you need to be constantly thinking about what something is, because the layout is TOO uniform. Rust on the other hand has a lot of greeblies and you have to remember what it is and what they do. For example macro attributes (and all their hidden effects) as well as the turbofish. Even some things like -> for the function body are simply unnecessary.