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Re:Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming by dgb23 on Friday June 03, 2022 @06:36AM (#31606563)
GP brought up a thing that’s certainly not equally represented in all languages. There are physical limitations for reading, and the amount of novel context you can juggle.

There is a balance between verbosity and conciseness that makes code more or less readable to different people.

If you have few experts who are maintaining a codebase over a longer time, then verbosity gets in the way. If you have a wider skill distribution and fast turnover, then you want verbosity.

Additionally I think there are more objective features. Like ambiguity, simplicity, formatting, naming, visual hierarchy...

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