> Rust-like programming language that was just a little bit higher level I think the best answer is Scala. It has an awesome community/libraries/ecosystem. See

> Rust-like programming language that was just a little bit higher level I think the best answer is Scala. It has an awesome community/libraries/ecosystem. See this for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31601040#31604573 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31601040#31604573 There are other great answers, like F#, Haskell or OCaml, but these are not as mainstream and that comes with its challenges. With Scala you get and awesome IDE, surprisingly wide variety of libraries and the whole Java world as a backup.