Comment by _verandaguy

Why would the language being typographically ugly matter? Python's pretty, but it hides a lot of functional nuance behind that. Rust is terse, but it's also expressive in its terseness.

If you want to give it a fair shot, it does take some time to get used to, coming from something like Python or Ruby. I won't deny that. I've found that using LSP-assissted semantic syntax highlighting helps, for me, on the typographic front.

I don't think typographic design is a key consideration in most languages' designs, though, and I don't think it should be. The main thing I look for is consistent, relatively predictable rules around the syntax, as far as that layer of language choice goes.