Comment by shakow

They only seem obvious to you because you are used to them.

Quite the opposite to you, Rust is obvious to me because I'm used to low-level programming and careful memory management, where JS is more than often very surprising.

Another example: I wrote a Lisp-like language in my company for mathematicians to develop constraint systems; now this purely functional, bastard Lisp feels like a second nature to them, whereas they could barely put three lines of Java together to save their lives.

Does not mean that I'm more or less right than you are; just that just like human languages, no PL or paradigms are ‶naturally obvious″, we are just more or less used to them.