Re:What I wish I knew when learning OCaml (2018)
by mumblemumble on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @12:29PM
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As a long-time F# user and current Rust learner, I would say the similarities are mostly cosmetic.
First and foremost, F# is functional-first, while Rust isn't really functional. Rust takes some useful features from functional languages, to be sure, but the overall paradigm is more procedural. A lot of key functional idioms and design patterns don't really fly in Rust because it's difficult-to-impossible to make them play nice with its memory management model.
Rust has traits, but not OOP. F# has OOP but not traits or typeclasses.
F# is immutable by default, and discourages mutability. Rust is immutable by default, but embraces (and tames) mutability.
First and foremost, F# is functional-first, while Rust isn't really functional. Rust takes some useful features from functional languages, to be sure, but the overall paradigm is more procedural. A lot of key functional idioms and design patterns don't really fly in Rust because it's difficult-to-impossible to make them play nice with its memory management model.
Rust has traits, but not OOP. F# has OOP but not traits or typeclasses.
F# is immutable by default, and discourages mutability. Rust is immutable by default, but embraces (and tames) mutability.