this same tendency to run if it compiles exists in most/all statically typed garbage collected languages too though, with less cognitive overhead while coding (

this same tendency to run if it compiles exists in most/all statically typed garbage collected languages too though, with less cognitive overhead while coding (but more runtime overhead of course!) What will be interesting is if Rust proves to be, or can be made to be, a productive choice for programs where the runtime performance is not needed. At the moment I feel like it adds so much verbosity compared to other ML-based languages that it just isn't. But I do love performance, even if I don't need it :)