[pwdisswordfishz]

That's because the author of the proposal is from Microsoft and has repeatedly shot down counter-suggestions that made the syntax look different from C#.

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-explicit-resource-managemen...

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-explicit-resource-managemen...

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-explicit-resource-managemen...

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-explicit-resource-managemen...

[spankalee]

That looks like a lot of very reasonable responses to me.

[Zacru]

And he was just laid off. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43978589