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Re:The struggle with Rust by crdoconnor on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @08:31AM (#13471130)
The clincher for me with respect to rust is that I see a steady stream of useful software being developed in it.

I never really saw that in Haskell and I've heard people talking about it for at least 15 years. That indicates that something is missing.

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Re:The struggle with Rust by kazagistar on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @10:34AM (#13472116)
There is some pretty damn useful software written in haskell. For example, I started using Pandoc long before I knew it was written in Haskell, and for me, it still dwarfs the utility of any specific tool made in Rust. That said, Haskell had a lot longer to get there, so Rust is still moving a lot faster on that front.
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Re:The struggle with Rust by flukus on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @06:25PM (#13476791)
It's been the same with lisp for 40/50 years. A lot of evangelists but not a lot of people doing useful things with it. Rails did more for FP than lisp evangelists ever did.
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Re:The struggle with Rust by rubber_duck on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @08:33AM (#13471142)
This makes me hopeful about Rust as well.
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