[bicarbonato]

What do people actually mean when they say "the syntax is janky"?

I often see comparisons to languages like Python and Kotlin, but both encode far less information on their syntax because they don't have the same features as Rust, so there's no way for them to express the same semantics as rust.

Sure, you can make Rust look simpler by removing information, but at that point you're not just changing syntax, you're changing the language's semantics.

Is there any language that preserves the same level of type information while using a less "janky" syntax?

[NoGravitas]

I don't know if there is, but there certainly needs to be. All of Rust's syntax seems to be needed to support its semantics, but it also undeniably crosses a threshold of "too much syntax". Though I do agree with the person above who said that every language that's not Lisp has too much syntax.