Mostly the same here, but I participate in niche communities on both sides. I am just trying to keep the niche communities from dying.

It’s been better but still has a long way to go though, particularly regarding string handling

Oh yeah, I get all of those, because I am a Rust programmer myself who hates OOP. :D

I raised the topic up only because of how people were talking about “the ultimate language with everything”.

Rust still lacks OOP (the inheritance/subtyping part of it) though. And some more advanced Haskell features too, like HKT.

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I wonder, what kind of wrappers? I have seen some wrappers that seem useless at first, but they shine when we do a refactor because the wrappers concentrate logic in one place.