> You know what would make easier pick up languages like Rust and Scala? Actually using them, and not making a detour into the language that has different goals

> You know what would make easier pick up languages like Rust and Scala? Actually using them, and not making a detour into the language that has different goals. While this is pithily said, I think it is not unreasonable to disagree. It may be that a language that makes unrealistic assumptions and sacrifices almost everything to maintaining a theoretical vision may make it easier to understand that vision, on top of which understanding you can then layer the necessary compromises more easily than you could by learning both theory and compromises at the same time.