Comment by qalmakka

> the readability and aesthetics of Rust code

I've been writing C/C++ code for the last 16 years and I think a lot of mental gymnastics is required in order to call C "more readable" than Rust. C syntax is only "logical" and "readable" because people have been writing it for the last 60 years, most of it is literally random hacks made due to constraints ({ instead of [ because they thought that array would be more common than blocks, types in front of variables because C is just B with types, wonky pointer syntax, ...). It's like claiming that English spelling is "rational" and "obvious" only because it's the only language you know IMHO.

Rust sure has more features but it also way more regular and less quirky. And it has real macros, instead of insane text replacement, every C project over 10k lines I've worked on has ALWAYS had some insane macro magic. The Linux kernel itself is full of function-like macros that do any sort of magic due to C not having any way to run code at compile-time at all.