[balencpp]

Did you discover Scala 3 and give it a thought? I think of it as Rust with an _overall_ stronger type-system, but where you don't have to worry about memory management. It has an amazing standard library, particularly around collections. You get access to the amazing JVM ecosystem. And more. Martin Odersky in fact sees Scala's future lying in being a simpler Rust.

Also, regarding F#. It runs on .NET, and indeed, since the ecosystem and community are very small, you need to rely on .NET (basically C#) libraries. But it's really not "tied" to Microsoft and is open source.