Rust

Today's early morning I woke up with a single thought reflecting loudly in my brain: "Dart was a mistake, it was not made for me. I should look for some statically typed practical language instead". Even though my KriWeb project (written in Dart) was not actively developed, I agreed (with my dreaming counterpart) that the instrument I choose for this project iteration is far from perfect. Suddenly, I felt the urge to look for something ideal, something that seemed so real as if I was reading its specification the other day... And I just needed to recall its name...

I started looking for it on the web. There were many interesting suspects among new languages. Ceylon, for example, features immutability by default (which highly encourages functional style), which seemed very familiar and close to what I looked for. It is a very nice language all in all, but it's currently running on Java VM, and was heavily inspired by it, what pushed me off. Go sounded attractive due to the strong support from Google, however disappointed me by its lack of user generics. Zimbu looked too original, while Haxe seemed to pretend covering too much use-cases. I've reached  the 5-th page in google search results, and there still wasn't any trace of it. Maybe it was a dream?..

One step away from stopping my search, I stumbled upon this Holy Grail of programming. Name is Rust, developed by Mozilla Foundation. Suddenly, I remembered this shining website interface, this clear language specification that I read a while ago. I found it, at last! Let me explain why I was so happy:

• Strong static typing with inference, only explicit mutability. This is so right and so rare to see at the same time. Unlike Dart, most of my mistakes will be found at compile time.
• No page faults while still compiling to native code. Memory model is protected and guaranteed to work without access violations under normal circumstances. It has a potential for C-like performance, hence being a better tool for various tasks.
• User generics with constraints, pattern matching (Haskell-style). Yes, it took the best from my beloved purely functional language.
• Less statements but more expressions and closures. This makes it even more sleek and functional.
• Syntax extensions. Hello, Boo macros!
• Structure compatibility with C. Using external API's (i.e. OpenGL) gets easier.

Overall, the language and its environment seem very nice. It is simple yet powerful, and feels very promising. I'm looking forward to work closely with this gem, and I'm very excited :)