While Rust competes with C++ by sharing a lot of goals, it is _way_ closer to ML than C++ is. If it was developed with the goal of being an ML language, my gue

While Rust competes with C++ by sharing a lot of goals, it is _way_ closer to ML than C++ is. If it was developed with the goal of being an ML language, my guess is that a lot of what it does wouldn't be possible and it'd end up being another language very similar to OCaml.