{"id":45236078,"user":"jitl","time":1757805372,"time_ago":"2 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

Rust is a HUGE language with a small stdlib. Gleam is a small language with a small stdlib.","comments":[{"id":45236111,"user":"scuff3d","time":1757805661,"time_ago":"2 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

Yes, thank you for pointing that out...

My point was about the need to rely on external libraries. I'm not a fan of that approach. I don't care for it in Rust or JavaScript, and I get a similar vibe from Gleam.","comments":[{"id":45237150,"user":"jitl","time":1757820028,"time_ago":"2 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

Agree. My dream:

Go stdlib and tooling

A good programming language","comments":[{"id":45238033,"user":"scuff3d","time":1757833057,"time_ago":"a day ago","type":"comment","content":"

Odin?","comments":[{"id":45238575,"user":"renox","time":1757841279,"time_ago":"a day ago","type":"comment","content":"

Not the GP but while Odin has a syntax similar to Go, it has manual memory management instead of a GC, that's a pretty big difference.","comments":[{"id":45242068,"user":"scuff3d","time":1757874169,"time_ago":"a day ago","type":"comment","content":"

Obviously, but it's an extremely well design language with a batteries included approach to the standard library.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":4,"url":"item?id=45242068"}],"comments_count":1,"level":3,"url":"item?id=45238575"},{"id":45239818,"user":"jitl","time":1757858818,"time_ago":"a day ago","type":"comment","content":"

I’d prefer a GC language with exhaustive matching on discriminated union types. Maybe “go + typescript type system + higher kinded types”. Swift is in the ballpark and would be a lot more appealing with the go tooling.

But fill in the blank with your preference :)","comments":[{"id":45242102,"user":"scuff3d","time":1757874390,"time_ago":"a day ago","type":"comment","content":"

Ocaml? It garbage collected, primarily functional but with options for an imperative style when necessary. Of course its std isn't very good. I think Jane Street has done a lot improve things, but the whole ecosystem is still kind of a mess.","comments":[{"id":45244190,"user":"jitl","time":1757891043,"time_ago":"18 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

I just can’t with the OCaml header files. Like what the hell all the types are inferred but you’re gonna make me write a header file for each module???","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":5,"url":"item?id=45244190"}],"comments_count":1,"level":4,"url":"item?id=45242102"}],"comments_count":2,"level":3,"url":"item?id=45239818"}],"comments_count":5,"level":2,"url":"item?id=45238033"}],"comments_count":6,"level":1,"url":"item?id=45237150"}],"comments_count":7,"level":0,"url":"item?id=45236111"}],"comments_count":8,"url":"item?id=45236078"}

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