Comment by throwaway273748

This is giving real "if all you have is a hammer" vibes.

I also have years of experience with Rust, but I moved off Rust a few years back simply because I'm sick of the anemic stdlib and lack of mature ecosystem around anything even one inch off the beaten path. Cargo is a shitshow and Rust forces you into an npm-like experience for a whole bunch of functionality that ought to be included in the box. You're juggling libraries with versions like 0.1.2 of which there's seven, none of which are feature complete and five of which are semi abandoned. Then you run into the orphan rule trying to fix or extend any of them.

I kind of think some other language will come along, take the borrow checker, take all the type conveniences that Rust stole from OCaml that make Rust so nice, glue it all to a Python/Go/dotnet style fat stdlib, complete with an optional GC for all the things that don't actually need bare metal performance (just stick an arena in stdlib), and Rust will feel like a clunker by comparison.