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Discussion on: Why Learn Rust?

 
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Daniil Baturin

If Rust works for you, then it works for you. The problem is, you don't know what else is in the store. And you wouldn't be worse off if you knew. ;)

OCaml definitely doesn't force you into the functional paradigm. It even has an OO system with type inference for objects.
Among ML descendants, there's also Swift that tries it best to pretend it's not a functional language to avoid scaring Objective-C users off.

I never regret learning Rust. I also don't use it in my current projects, though I may use if it in the future.