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by zija 1760 days ago
No, i like Rust very much. But Rust require from me to deep dive with language, it's not productive language, it's correct from start to end language. Language with optional GC, value types like Nim or D are better for small hobby projects. But community and library ecosystem and tooling are weak. On other hand there are Ocaml and F#. But Ocaml for windows is weak, community is small etc F# inherits problems from c#
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AnimalMuppet 1760 days ago
OK, but this:

> From top popular language, say from https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2021/08/05/language-rankings-6-2..., only Go and Swift/ Objective-C are languages with static typing, compiled to native tool chain

is still false.

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Zababa 1760 days ago
That's a fair point, but I don't find Rust really harder to use than Go for small hobby projects. Swift is nice as a language but has a huge lack of libraries.
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