The Blow programming language

The developer of Braid has streamed two talks so far (with more to come) on his pain points in language design. He's uploaded the recordings here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH9VCN6UkyQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Nc68IdNKdg

It seems to me that what he actually wants is more or less Rust, but he doesn't realize it because he's hung up on design decisions that strike him as opinionated, when really they're the natural outcome of the overall design constraints ("no GC, no run-time type checking if we can help it," and so on) or represent planned features that merely have yet to be implemented. Then again, the D community is saying something similar, and I don't know D as well as Rust so I'm not sure what to think.

>>6,9
How the FUCK do you consider name : type = value to be stranger than C's star's here, base type and name here, array brackets here, and we can all be arbitrarily nested such that you literally need to apply something called ``the spiral rule'' to read type declarations = value;