I don't really prefer rust, but I'd take that syntax over zig, c++ templating is just evil though. Also it's not about readability, but rather the uniqueness to it.

Concur, but non-async rust is a different matter!

> Async Rust is the ugliest and least readable language I've ever seen and I've done a lot of heavily templated C++

No, this is a wild claim that shows you've either never written async Rust or never written heavily templated C++. Feel free to give code examples if you want to suggest otherwise.