Comment by Daishiman

> I don't know precisely what that level is, but I think many programming languages, such as C++ and Rust, have stepped way past that line.

There are no languages in the same domain that don't have a comparable level of syntax and semantic complexity given the intrinsic nature of the information they want to encode.

And I would make rather take sigils than using a bunch of different keywords every time I need to talk about lifetimes and pointers.

To date I have not seen languages with comparable complexity expressed with more elegant syntax. Some domains just have irreducible complexity.