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Re:Rust Absolutely Positively Sucks [video] by nymalt on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @09:42AM (#36955833)
There was a nice comment Prime made that it's not only about the ownership model, many people come to Rust for it's type system.

I have a feeling that far too many people go do Rust while what they actually need is OCaml - it's fast, has a nice type system and you don't have to think about lifetimes.

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Re:Rust Absolutely Positively Sucks [video] by duped on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @10:29AM (#36956375)
Ownership is part of the type system.
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Re:Rust Absolutely Positively Sucks [video] by cmrdporcupine on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @09:57AM (#36956015)
I agree, and OCaml (and the less popular but delightful StandardML) are lovely. But the problem there is the ecosystem just isn't there.

F# or Scala seem like reasonable choices.

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