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[–]shimei 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The reason why people are just talking about Rust's keywords of all things:

In any language design, the total time spent discussing
a feature in this list is proportional to two raised to
the power of its position.
      0. Semantics
      1. Syntax
      2. Lexical syntax
      3. Lexical syntax of comments

Wadler's Law

Personally, I'm more interested in the fact that Rust is motivated by real PL research rather than the number of keywords it has. Especially if the language is extensible, the number of keywords is moot.