by wezm on 11/19/2024, 11:20:47 PM
Might 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/revisiting-a-smaller-rust/
It's also niche, but https://gleam.run/ might be a candidate alternate language, depending on your use-case.
by CharlieDigital on 11/19/2024, 7:32:21 PM
> ...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#.
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.