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Ask HN: Isn't there a lightweight and popular Rust?

by dondraper36 on 11/19/24, 7:29 PM with 3 comments

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.

by wezm on 11/19/24, 11:20 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 11/19/24, 7:32 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#.