[msvan]

I think the final remark about a hypothetical language, Rust-like but without all the low-level requirements, is important here. There is essentially no widely-adopted programming language out that feels like a modern ML with a good tooling situation. Until that happens, Rust will continue to awkwardly serve the audience of such a language while never truly being what they want it to be.

[evntdrvn]

No love for F# ? The tooling is pretty dang good, all things considered.

[pjmlp]

It could be even better if despite being from Microsoft wasn't handled like a 3rd party guest language on .NET design decisions, and VS roadmap tooling.

[evntdrvn]

absolutely

[zozbot234]

ReasonML is at least as widely adopted as any other niche language, and seems to fit the bill as a ML-like which plays nice with modern tooling.

[pohl]

Why wouldn’t Swift fit that description?

[tempodox]

Like Rust, it's not an actual FP language. Borrowing some FP features is not sufficient.

[pohl]

What's missing, in your view?