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Comment by dboreham

2 years ago

For the casual reader: Rust is one of the most functional of the not-totally-functional languages.

For the casual reader, if you think Rust is a casual way to play with functional programming, you will encounter the lifetimes booby trap.

It's almost always better to 'play' in a language that abstracts everything away except for the problem domain. Not like Rust, which introduces multiple complex language domains to learn before you can play wih your target domain.