[mjb8086]

Thanks for getting back. I'll take a look at those resources you recommended. Certainly, working with Rust, a lot just 'feels right', it brings together elements I liked from other programming languages like Perl, Erlang, C. Those being: expressiveness, efficiency, a reasonably sane standard library, and functional goodies like immutability and closures.

> You add the field the the whole thing still compiles even though the zero-initialized value probably broke your app logic.

Ah, I found Python notorious for the same reason.

I've found ASP.Net's ORM to be quite good, though this is only with a year's experience, so perhaps I'm missing some cracks that might emerge later.