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Minimalism is good if it means not adding unneeded features or not adding things that don't go well together.

Otherwise, it's not a great idea. Basic is a very minimalist language but good luck trying to do anything complex.

Rust might be unnecessary complex and that is the other side of the coin.

Look at it a different way: maybe BASIC is good at exactly what it was intended to do, which is to provide a good intro to programming to kids and beginners. It was never intended to write enterprise-scale software, and that's ok. That's not the intended use case for BASIC, and it's fine that BASIC can't please everyone with every possible use case.

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