So what I like about your comment is you’re clearly more pragmatist than zealot or ideologue. So I don’t know Lisp or Haskell. I never learned in the college y

So what I like about your comment is you’re clearly more pragmatist than zealot or ideologue. So I don’t know Lisp or Haskell. I never learned in the college years when I might’ve had time and now I just don’t want to pay the years long learning curve. I’ve got shit to do. But the big problem (for me) is I’ve completely turned off dynamic typing. Python did this to me and i I honestly don’t think I’ll ever go back. I refer to dynamic typing as “unit tests for spelling mistakes”. YMMV. Another issue is I like simple grammars and relatively opinionated languages. I’m not the biggest fan of GC either. Years of tuning GC pauses of JVM have soured me on the boundless benefits of GC. I give this as context to say that I like Go. You can learn Go in a really short amount of time. There’s usually only one way to do things in Go. That’s good. Less surprise and less arguments in teams. An issue I have with C++ (and this applies to Lisp and Haskell too) is it allows people to be too clever for their own good. Look at 200 lines of Lisp and there might be a C compiler buried in there. Who knows? That might demonstrate the power of the language but is usually counterproductive to a team or project. So memory safety is the big selling point of Rust. You need to buy into that and why things like static typing are good even though you might struggle with the type system and borrow checker at first. Is better to fight the compiler than be surprised by the runtime (IMHO). But Rust of course is not issue free and it differs from some long-standing and unfortunate design choices early in its life that are going to be hard to correct. Build times are a big one. See this [1] for more. For the last few years I’ve written Hack (aka PHP) professionally. One thing one comes to really appreciate is cooperative async-await, which is pervasive. Writing C/C++/Java has taught me that of you every manually spawn a thread you’re going to have a bad time so you should do anything in your power to avoid this. Go is one flavor of alternative. Hack is another. I’m not sure I’ma big fan of Rust’s. Ultimately, with Rust out any other language for that matter, you need to learn and buy into the idioms otherwise you’re going to have a bad time. [1]: https://pingcap.com/blog/rust-compilation-model-calamity https://pingcap.com/blog/rust-compilation-model-calamity