Re:When Rust Makes Sense, or The State of Typed Languages
by MichaelGG on Monday September 28, 2015 @05:32AM
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But this whole time, if efficiency was your aim, why not use, say OCaml? But good viewpoint: Rust is actually friendly enough that it is viable for the kind of things you mention.
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Re:When Rust Makes Sense, or The State of Typed Languages
by gmjosack on Monday September 28, 2015 @05:52AM
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Another thing is the lack of runtime is really compelling. I can continue to write Python and can drop into Rust for hot code. Right now this is through C which does get me a bit of unsafety but it's much smaller scope. As Rust becomes more mature I'm looking forward to the ABI stabilizing so other languages can build ffi interfaces against it directly.
I'll admit that OCaml is something that I've looked at before but it didn't have the staying power for me. It's likely just because it was too different at the time compared to what I was used to.