> But first impressions matter, especially when there is pervasive word of mouth about "verbosity"

I watched most of my comp sci 101/102/201 classmates fail out because they didn’t want to understand how things worked, they just wanted to make a lot of money.

Edit: hn even helped me prove the point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42457515

Teach that to a 10 year old, where their primary keyboard experience is a phone.

More than that, if rust is the future, which I have seen espoused before, picking on the Java keywords and syntax is highly amusing.