I can partly understand your points. I actually hated the &quot;traditions&quot; like Just Another Perl Hacker because it strongly gives an illusion of Perl as an obfuscated language.<p>My corresponding counterpoint is that you can write an obfuscated code in any language, no exception---probably a side-effect of Turing-completeness. If people has a general dislike towards too much magic and magic can be replaced with science^W saner alternatives there is no problem. The problem arises when you <i>have</i> to rely on magic for the certain class of tasks; it&#x27;s no doubt that C++ (even the modern one) has this problem, but I think it is too early to claim that Rust has the same symptom.