[jpz]

I can't agree - there's too much going on in Rust - most people using Python want something approaching Matlab or R for ease of use.

I'm not saying Rust doesn't have it's sweet spot - but I can't see that as a general purpose language. (Likewise Haskell and Scala - that's just my opinion though :))

[tormeh]

For better and worse, I wouldn't say anything so absolute about Scala. Scala contains multitudes ;)

You can write Scala as Java or Haskell or anything in between.