They absolutely are not orthogonal. They are closely related. In any case, Rust improves both. > I doubt Rust gives any meaningful advantage there. Advantage

They absolutely are not orthogonal. They are closely related. In any case, Rust improves both. > I doubt Rust gives any meaningful advantage there. Advantage over what? Haskell & OCaml? Maybe not. C++ or Python? Absolutely. Its type system is far stronger than those, and its APIs are much better designed and harder to misuse.