[bradrn]

I agree with all of this. But I’ll point out that ‘the paradigms can be prioritised’ wasn’t intended to be my main point there. I wanted rather to refute the argument that Rust etc. aren’t ‘post-paradigm’ at all: on the contrary, they fit in quite well with existing paradigms.

> Even two of the most similar languages there are, at least in terms of language spec, Python and Ruby, demonstrate significant differences in the orientation of the library ecosystem in some of their philosophies.

Hmm… I feel you can get a lot more similar than that. Python and Ruby are actually rather different to my mind. Rather, you could take OCaml vs SML, or Scheme vs Racket. The differences are still there, but it’s much more subtle.