[dragonwriter]

> But what I got instead was an ML with better low-level support; it felt like an enormous bait-and-switch, as nobody is interested in yet-another-functional-language.

Leaving aside whether I think that's a fair description of Rust, I think plenty of people are interested in a functional programming language without the overhead of GC that is suitable for use as a low-level systems language.

You probably shouldn't write "Nobody is interested..." when what you really mean is just "I am not interested..."