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Re:Writing Pythonic Rust by xfer on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @12:09AM (#27272507)
> In my line of work, I like the idea of using Rust but realistically the economic sweet spot is something like “Go with sum types” or “Rust-lite”.

AKA Ocaml.

Re:Writing Pythonic Rust by throwaway894345 on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @06:48AM (#27275250)
Yeah, in theory, but I’ve never had much luck with OCaml and every time I dig into my problems here it ends with the OCaml fanboys berating me so I’ve pretty much given up on it.
Re:Writing Pythonic Rust by pjmlp on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @02:21AM (#27273403)
Or F#, with the bonus of .NET ecosystem and IDEs.