On the other hand, if you think of a programming language as a specialized tool then you choose the tool for the job and don’t reach for your swiss army knife t

On the other hand, if you think of a programming language as a specialized tool then you choose the tool for the job and don’t reach for your swiss army knife to chop down a tree. The problem with gradually typed languages is that there are few such trees that should be chopped by their blunt blades. At least Rust is the best for a number of things instead of mediocre at all of them. One counterpoint to this is local self exploratory programming. For that a swiss army knife is ideal, but in those cases who cares about functional programming or abstractions?