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Honestly, if you have little interest in the language, then why do it? If it's to see if you might actually like it, pick anything, get a feel for it. Or do it in a language you actually have interest in.

Why subject yourself to a language you have no interest in just to gain clout?

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just pragmatic about these things. i would love to write it in clojure or whatever but life has beat the idealism out of me now

Then at least I'd pick something as a project that you are interested in. Think of your favorite Clojure library and do it in Rust. Or think of specific Clojure features that you would love to use in Rust and get cracking on a library.

Or find an existing Rust project and start contributing. JuJutsu for example.

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