> Oh boy do I agree about the noise. I absolutely love Rust, and I definitely don't think it's noisy (in normal examples) but before I first learned Rust generic code feat like syntax soup.
What's the alternative? Text-based syntax ala Pascal/Ada is actually noisier than symbol- and short-keyword-based, because you don't ever get to file the "syntax" parts away as you become familiar with them; you have to process them visually every time you read that code. There may be a case for that sort of overly-verbose syntax as a form of literate programming - an introduction meant for users who are as of yet unfamiliar with any given system; but as an everyday practice it's quite painful!
Using rustfmt consistently will get you basically 90% of the way towards the "Pythonic" benefits of significant whitespace. On the other side, having lexical block nesting be controlled by an explicit pair of characters { } is a pretty significant advantage, particularly so for Rust where placing a bit of code in its own block can have rather significant implications of its own!
I'm the other way around. When I started with Python I instantly fell in love with "format is the syntax". A few format bugs later (people changed code and didn't push/pull a block, or merged two blocks by mistake), and using autoformatters, and now I wish Python used another mechanism.
What's the alternative? Text-based syntax ala Pascal/Ada is actually noisier than symbol- and short-keyword-based, because you don't ever get to file the "syntax" parts away as you become familiar with them; you have to process them visually every time you read that code. There may be a case for that sort of overly-verbose syntax as a form of literate programming - an introduction meant for users who are as of yet unfamiliar with any given system; but as an everyday practice it's quite painful!