I've found that the less real estate my eyes need to scan, the faster I understand the code, even if its more tersely expressed and requires a little decoding. Relatedly, I've come to appreciate a line of code that does the thing rather than one that calls a function whose name might express what the function does, but I might need to go find it and and read its code. That works well if your language supports a terse expression. So I prefer you tersely multiply/reduce a list rather than call a function, but some languages just aren't friendly to that and demand verbosity.

Rust does so a lot of abbreviation, though. fn, ptr, mut, etc.

I kinda love it, because verbosity means you have to rely on completion and that has a negative impact on retention.

And the terseness is good when you’re familiar with the code.

>"Rust may be verbose, but at least you can read it without turning into a cynical greybeard subject matter expert first."

Actually stuff like fn, mut etc. feels like mutilation to me. I guess it is highly individual.