> I admittedly haven't tried F# since .net core. I just remember it being very Windows-centric and closely tied to parts of the C# ecosystem FWIW I did a small

> I admittedly haven't tried F# since .net core. I just remember it being very Windows-centric and closely tied to parts of the C# ecosystem FWIW I did a small project recently in f#, using .net core (on linux), and it never seemed like a second-class citizen. Can't speak to the c# ecosystem, though. > > if you need a c library, you can build a 'trusted' wrapper around it as easily in rust as with any other language. > Sure, but if that wrapper does not exist, you have to build it yourself. I can say from experience that writing an idiomatic, safe Rust wrapper for a C library is far from trivial, so you lose the "I don't have to worry about memory unsafety" property. Right. My question is, why is this a mark in favour of rust? It doesn't seem to distinguish it at all from the other languages you mention.