Rust was developed for a core systems programming task: writing a browser. Yes, there is lots of influence from PL research, but I fail to see how the community

Rust was developed for a core systems programming task: writing a browser. Yes, there is lots of influence from PL research, but I fail to see how the community is FP oriented. Re your points about toolchain: Rust is also developing a non-LLVM backend, and is one of the better compilers for incremental compilation