[nymalt]

There was a nice comment Prime made that it's not only about the ownership model, many people come to Rust for it's type system.

I have a feeling that far too many people go do Rust while what they actually need is OCaml - it's fast, has a nice type system and you don't have to think about lifetimes.

[cmrdporcupine]

I agree, and OCaml (and the less popular but delightful StandardML) are lovely. But the problem there is the ecosystem just isn't there.

F# or Scala seem like reasonable choices.

[duped]

Ownership is part of the type system.