Rust is newish, so it just wasn't an option. Haskell carries a heavy runtime around so it's not suitable for a lot of environments, nor is it easy (possible?) t

Rust is newish, so it just wasn't an option. Haskell carries a heavy runtime around so it's not suitable for a lot of environments, nor is it easy (possible?) to package as a dynamic library. But yeah, for new projects, choose memory safe languages.