[professor_plum]

I'm going to be That Guy and suggest you give Rust a try. It's got the best of imperative and functional mixed in.

[HumanDrivenDev]

The implication being that OO is the same thing is imperative? I'm in strong disagreement with that!

I've tried to learn rust a few times, but never with much tenacity. It's on my list because it seems to hit a good point wrt expressiveness and performance.

[professor_plum]

Not what I meant, no.

In oversimplified terms, Rust has objects but not classes. It skews more toward: - from a C dev's perspective: data-driven design - from a Haskell dev's perspective: typeclasses and ADTs