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Rust is a HUGE language with a small stdlib. Gleam is a small language with a small stdlib.

Yes, thank you for pointing that out...

My point was about the need to rely on external libraries. I'm not a fan of that approach. I don't care for it in Rust or JavaScript, and I get a similar vibe from Gleam.

Agree. My dream:

Go stdlib and tooling

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A good programming language

Odin?

Not the GP but while Odin has a syntax similar to Go, it has manual memory management instead of a GC, that's a pretty big difference.

Obviously, but it's an extremely well design language with a batteries included approach to the standard library.

I’d prefer a GC language with exhaustive matching on discriminated union types. Maybe “go + typescript type system + higher kinded types”. Swift is in the ballpark and would be a lot more appealing with the go tooling.

But fill in the blank with your preference :)

Ocaml? It garbage collected, primarily functional but with options for an imperative style when necessary. Of course its std isn't very good. I think Jane Street has done a lot improve things, but the whole ecosystem is still kind of a mess.

I just can’t with the OCaml header files. Like what the hell all the types are inferred but you’re gonna make me write a header file for each module???

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