I think Rust could use some syntax improvements for pointer manipulation. It has suffix .await, so maybe the community is ready for suffix .* for dereference now too. Visually scanning left and right, along with the extra parentheses, makes pointer-based code in Rust worse than C++ almost. A fully left-to-right syntax would be amazing. EDIT: found https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/10011 and https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3577