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You have just persuaded me to give Rust a try... I like the idea of an advanced programming language with a pedagogical bent, that still allows me to get shit d

You have just persuaded me to give Rust a try... I like the idea of an advanced programming language with a pedagogical bent, that still allows me to get shit done. Since you seem to be a functional guy, the fact that you respect Rust is a selling point for me. EDIT: oops - no REPL in Rust. Big hurdle for a data-science guy like myself. Scala/Ocaml/Haskell: all have REPL. That's also a big impediment to the pedagogical angle.

Ericson2314 11y ago
Great! I am a functional programmer at heart. But I definitely have masochistic system programming tendencies, and Rust is a good outlet. I have high hopes for Rust to be the gateway drug to the world of good languages. I do which it was more powerful in some respects, but it's definitely slick. There's plenty of really head-shaking mistakes in OCaml that everyone will run into from day one, that, like the OP, I can't imagine why they were made in the first place. Rust doesn't have those.
- Ericson2314 11y ago
  And since what I really want for systems programming is a library like http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/nick/coqasm.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/nick/coqasm.pd..., at some level it's inevitable I wouldn't find Rust powerful enough.
Ericson2314 11y ago
Oh bummer, yeah analysis-type tasks is precisely where the REPL is most essential, not going to lie. I hope https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1298-incremental-compilation.md https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1298-incr... will help bridge the gap. And perhaps help with writing a REPL too...
thinkpad20 11y ago
It's a shame too because rust used to have a repl back in the day. I'm sure they had reasons to get rid of it, but it's still a shame. I understand there's some sort of initiative to write another one though, but I don't know what its status is.

Ericson2314 11y ago

Great! I am a functional programmer at heart. But I definitely have masochistic system programming tendencies, and Rust is a good outlet. I have high hopes for Rust to be the gateway drug to the world of good languages. I do which it was more powerful in some respects, but it's definitely slick. There's plenty of really head-shaking mistakes in OCaml that everyone will run into from day one, that, like the OP, I can't imagine why they were made in the first place. Rust doesn't have those.

Ericson2314 11y ago
And since what I really want for systems programming is a library like http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/nick/coqasm.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/nick/coqasm.pd..., at some level it's inevitable I wouldn't find Rust powerful enough.

Ericson2314 11y ago

Oh bummer, yeah analysis-type tasks is precisely where the REPL is most essential, not going to lie. I hope https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1298-incremental-compilation.md https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1298-incr... will help bridge the gap. And perhaps help with writing a REPL too...

thinkpad20 11y ago

It's a shame too because rust used to have a repl back in the day. I'm sure they had reasons to get rid of it, but it's still a shame. I understand there's some sort of initiative to write another one though, but I don't know what its status is.