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> human-readable

> sytacticly similar to Rust

Choose one.

I kid, I kid, but Rust is not the easiest-reading language out there. It has the same problem as C++, with a syntax that's not terribly straightforward to begin with, but then it's just liberally sprinkled with nearly every bit of punctuation that can by typed with the US QWERTY layout.

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Rust is extremely unreadable if you're not used to it, but becomes one of the most readable languages once you are. My subjective experience, at least.

With some notable exceptions. I'll never love the turbofish [1] for example.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/tests/ui/parse...

I love Rust, but would disagree. It is always difficult to read partially because there is so much boilerplate. impl blocks and where clauses in some codebases cause a lot of noise, for example. Granted, it probably could not be as easy to read as say a subset of Python is, for example, simply because it is a very strongly typed systems language and therefore needs to describe a lot more.

Some of this is just preference at the end of the day.

I find modern Typescript to be utter spaghetti and arguably worse at the points you’ve listed here.

Well this project isn't the full rust syntax, its just rust's object notation. I don't think its any harder to read than JSON.

I find it really straightforward until lifetimes are involved. I used Rust for a few weeks last January.

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