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by lmm 476 days ago
> Rust developers are insanely productive.

If your baseline is a language that is missing some features that were in standard ML, sure. If you were already using OCaml or F#, Rust doesn't make you any more productive. If you were already using Haskell or Scala, Rust's lack of HKT will actively slow you down.