(Author here) thanks! Even as an experienced Rust developer, this is a lot of syntax which is part of what makes it archaic I think.
As usual with Rust most of it is due to inherent complexity: for example, when you deal with raw pointers, you need to specify if they are const or mut, and you must have a syntax that’s not &, and not too wordy: so * is a good choice (might be changed to &raw in the future!). And if you want to say that something is generic and the generic parameter is a pointer… you just end up with a lot of syntax.
