Comment by brundolf
3 days ago
It's not about being flummoxed, it's about being annoyed enough not to give it a chance
How much less adoption would Rust have gotten if it looked like OCaml instead of C++?
Its adopters are not stupid, they could have figured out alien syntax if they were already convinced of the benefit. But selling someone on an entirely new substrate for their professional work is a huge ask. You need to make it as immediately-palatable as possible, or they'll just keep on sailing without giving it a chance.
As much as I wish the world to be different, I've heard so much whining about the Ada language's not-C-likeness that I tend to agree with you.