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		Retra on April 15, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Announcing Rust 1.8 Yeah, there's "FP" and there's "FP-style," and having FP-style usually gets you 80% of the way to what you want.

Ericson2314 on April 15, 2016 [–]

All I ask of a language (other things are nice but not required) is no "runtime type errors" and no data races. Haskell, Rust, OCaml give me these things.

[Slightly more formally, the first can be rephrased as "no omnipresent non-obvious partiality excluding that from non-termination".]

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