I love verbosity more than programming with hieroglyph languages as so common in UNIX culture, need to save those keyboards longevity, a side effect from subpar IDE tooling.
Microsoft is actually doing this as well, as part of their in-house migration to Rust, see RustNation UK 2025 talks from Microsoft.
That's damning with faint praise. Java is one of the most verbose languages.
> Rust, sadly, seem to be bound to end likewise as the rustaceans enthusiastically endorse AI-driven rewriting of legacy DoD C code into Rust.
Sure, some people want to speed up and/or automate conversion C to Rust, they are a minority. Going for 1 to 1 translation is going to be problem fraught with issues.