&gt; &quot;Explicit is better than implicit&quot; is also a naively wrong maxim. Verbosity is bad. Period. Every good writer I know is non-verbose. Meaning behind words is what makes a good literature, not long words or elaborate passages half page long<p>Good writing often allows (or even encourages) a reader to concoct their own inference of exactly what the author means.  Witness discussions that last to this day of many ancient classics.  Such ambiguity may be fine for writing, but it is obviously disastrous for large engineering projects.<p>That&#x27;s fine - not all code is a large engineering project - but most of the people I know who work on very large code bases will take explicitness every time. And those are the kind of projects that Rust is aimed at tackling.