Comment by 0815test

> much of the syntax differs needlessly from C like languages. It massively increases the cognitive overhead for someone coming from Java, C++, C#, C-like language world.

And it decreases the cognitive overhead for someone coming from Python, Ruby, Go, heck even Haskell or Ocaml. "Cognitive overhead" over a simpler, more elegant syntax (and I think I've made the case that Rust typing syntax is simpler once you move beyond trivial cases!) is a temporary issue anyway - you get used to it very quickly. What I find quite puzzling here is the particular issue you're complaining about, wrt. the C/C++ type declarations. You actually like having to write out things like "template" and "typename"? Now of course Rust syntax is rather C-like in other ways, but still!