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by Ericson2314 1652 days ago
Rust is overused where Haskell or OCaml is more appropriate, simply because it people prefer the general quality of it over more mainstream languages even at the cost of putting up with memory management minutiae. Simply put, one rarely every need to use Rust in a better world.

This is a good direction for Go, which will either lead to Go having a better ecosystem, or remove ideological barriers from people keeping on using Go.
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jbboehr 1652 days ago
> Rust is overused where Haskell or OCaml is more appropriate

Except then I'd have to learn Haskell or OCaml :) As a curly-bracket language programmer, Rust was much easier for me to get into and feels more like home.

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Ericson2314 1650 days ago
I found this closed-mindedness hard to understand -- I don't spend very much conscious thought on the syntax when programming at all -- but for people like you facebook made Reason ML https://reasonml.github.io/

Someone should port OCaml to the Go runtime with a good high-level FFI. It could really give the community a boost.

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