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Ask HN: Isn't there a lightweight and popular Rust?
With all these endless debates about Rust and Go, it seems that a lot of software engineers really want a programming language that is as expressive as Rust with its sum types and matching, but also easier in that there is garbage collection, a rich standard library, like in Go.
There are OCaml and F#, but I still see those are very much niche languages with pretty small communities.
- katesterling10 2y ago[dead]
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- CharlieDigital 2y ago> ...it seems that a lot of software engineers really want Software engineers may want it, but management wants elasticity in the human resource supply. Therefore, teams choose JavaScript, Python, Java, and C#.
- dondraper36 2y agoYes, that make sense, of course. A beautiful type system doesn't help businesses make money after all.
- wezm 2y agoMight be worth giving these posts a read when thinking about a lightweight Rust: - https://without.boats/blog/notes-on-a-smaller-rust/ https://without.boats/blog/notes-on-a-smaller-rust/ - https://without.boats/blog/revisiting-a-smaller-rust/ https://without.boats/blog/revisiting-a-smaller-rust/ It's also niche, but https://gleam.run/ https://gleam.run/ might be a candidate alternate language, depending on your use-case.