it feels like there’s a smaller language hiding in Rust that’s half as powerful at the edges but 10-50x easier to read, write, and maintain
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it would be a smaller language but a bigger runtime. the missing thing is preemptive gc
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It wouldn't be at all the same thing anymore. The real purpose and challenge behind designing it was providing memory safety without a garbage collection scheme. If someone wants a high level language, Rust isn't a good fit. It's not ML with type classes. It's a C replacement.
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It's not a bad thing for languages to be aimed at different niches. It doesn't reflect poorly on Rust that it's not a good fit as a high level language. It reflects badly on people misunderstanding the purpose of the language and the challenges that it has to solve in that space.