Not as exotic as Rust, due to more being in the Algol line of succession than ML's. But boy, on the Algol-tree, it's about as far away from Go as you can, erm,

Not as exotic as Rust, due to more being in the Algol line of succession than ML's. But boy, on the Algol-tree, it's about as far away from Go as you can, erm, go. The blog poster's predecessor was about as heavy as you can get into generics without being called Stepanov. D tends to have quite a lot of features and lets you pick your subset, which brings it closer to languages like C++ or Scala. Go, being basically Oberon filtered through New Jersey, is a lot more minimalistic. Old Java vs. new Java, basically.