> But why care about me, or people like me, perhaps I'm unique. It feels like Rust was designed for people as smart as the authors to use, and there's not a thing wrong with that. Myself, I prefer a small language that I can 'keep in my head', and build from there.

Rust was not designed to be difficult. It's designed to be as easy as possible without sacrificing the goals of memory safety and data race freedom. Building on a foundation like those of those other languages would result in a language that isn't safe or uses global concurrent GC.

> But please don't take offense to the assertion that the language is pretty complex compared to Go, Ruby, Python, or C.

I think that Rust actually has simpler semantics and fewer special cases than all of those.