> Yes it's a damning indictment of programming culture than people did not adopt pre-Rust ML-family languages, but it could be worse, they could be not adopting

> Yes it's a damning indictment of programming culture than people did not adopt pre-Rust ML-family languages, but it could be worse, they could be not adopting Rust either. I'll say for a long time I've been quite pleased on the general direction of the industry in terms of language design and industry trends around things like memory safety. For a good many years we've seen functional features being integrated into popular imperative languages, probably since map/reduce became a thing thanks to Google. So I'll us all credit for coming around eventually. I'm more dismayed by the recent AI trend of asking an AI to write Python code and then just going with whatever it outputs. I can't say that seems like a step forward.