[K0nserv]

Is it? I don't know if keeping Rust's syntax C++-like is a stated goal of the project, but okay sure we can add that caveat to my question.

The big problem I see is that people will say "Lifetime annotations are ugly and noisy" and when pressed on the issue will eventually concede that they just want GC(which is not about syntax, but semantics)

[steveklabnik]

It was a goal, though lower priority than other goals. You can see this in the way Rust is largely “curly braces and semicolons” but at times when there’s good reasons it diverged from that, like the ML style let syntax.

[ReleaseCandidat]

> I don't know if keeping Rust's syntax C++-like is a stated goal of the project

They won't change the syntax, the whole discussion is hypothetically anyway. What I wanted to express is that most people want a C++-style syntax (of generics), even if they complain about Rust's syntax.