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I love Rust, but I'm pretty sure it is not the best language for exploratory programming or quick prototyping.

• lostcolony 6y ago
  Even excluding network and org effects - For distributed problems I'd prefer something like Elixir. This may even be true for web dev (I admit I haven't explored it as much in Rust; just, a lot of what I've had in web services is IO bound, with strong process isolation expectations, and that's perfect for Elixir) For heavy math, Julia or maybe Python + libs. To build a DSL, a Lisp. For something largely integrative of other libraries, whatever language those libraries are built in. For certain types of problem solving and optimization problems, a logic language like Prolog. Etc.
• waiseristy 6y ago
  No no no... You're just not using enough Rc<RefCell<>>'s /s