Rust for functional programmers
It's funny, this article is dripping with attitude about how Rust will bring poor naive C programmers who are caught in the 70s into modern language design.<p>You could write just the same kind of article about how Rust will bring out-of-touch theorists into modern software engineering where you actually need a C-level of performance and predictability.  And then show examples of all the same "for" loops with mutable variables that you're used to writing in C have direct analogs in Rust.<p>But both bits of snark would miss the point, which is: Rust is awesome <i>precisely because</i> it merges these two schools of thought into something that preserves the advantages of both.