[mjr00]

True, fun is certainly different for everyone! I also enjoy being able to just focus on a real world problem, but I also programmed Scala professionally for many years, and I found it a lot more fun purely from the point of view of writing code. Writing a really elegant for comprehension or using currying in clever ways to make your code "elegant" was just enjoyable in and of itself, regardless of what problem you were actually trying to solve. Rust is pretty similar to me in that regard.

[eweise]

Same. I use Go for work because that's what the company uses, but I can't imagine coding in it for "fun". Elm + Scala feel much better to me.