Much nicer than scala? I don't see how you can claim that if you've touched futures in both languages.
Rust is a nice language for threaded programming, but the async situation is a trainwreck 4 years in the making.
Rust is a nice language for threaded programming, but the async situation is a trainwreck 4 years in the making.
I was thinking if the language itself, where it needs to keep backwards compatibility with Java (the distinction between case classes and classes, for example) and over engineering (implicit action at a distance all over the place). I think Scala is a nice language buried in way too much syntactic sugar. Interestingly enough, Rust's syntax doesn't bother me but quite a few people seem out off by it.
Rust is new and it advances slowly but at a steady state. Given its immaturity in some areas I can only go off potential and the async story seems to have a bright future, despite it's somewhat underwhelming present.