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As someone quite fluent in Rust (and several other languages) I love it in general… but I think it’s not a good option for average teams, especially if you don’t need the last bit of performance.

You could get most benefits of it by using Go in terms of tooling/speed, or something with a great type system if you‘re after the correctness checking compiler.

Personally I didn’t find a language yet that checks all the boxes I have, there is always some tradeoff involved that keeps bugging me. Recently stumbled upon OCaml and for the first time in years it looks like I found what I was looking for




> You could get most benefits of it by using Go in terms of tooling/speed, or something with a great type system if you‘re after the correctness checking compiler.

Or the much more mainstream Java/C# choice with much bigger ecosystems.




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