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Unexpected productivity boost of Rust

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517 points bkolobara | 1 comments | 27 Aug 25 15:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.272s | source
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pjmlp ◴[27 Aug 25 16:41 UTC] No.45041965[source]▶
Most of these productivity gains are achievable in any Standard ML influenced type system.
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bryanlarsen ◴[27 Aug 25 16:49 UTC] No.45042039[source]▶
The main difference between Rust and other languages with a Standard ML influenced type system is that Rust has features that can let you get executive sign off for switching languages.
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1. pjmlp ◴[27 Aug 25 17:00 UTC] No.45042166[source]▶
Not really, at my job Scala, F#, Swift and Kotlin are possible, and most likely will never do Rust, other than using JavaScript tools written using Rust, just because.

There is nothing in our domain of distributed systems based on SaaS products, mobile OSes, and managed cloud environments, that would profit from a borrow checker.