&gt; He considers Rust too ideologically opinionated to be of use to him.<p>He&#x27;s not wrong. The rust community approaches everything from the standpoint that we should be forcing devs to code in a particular way because safety. What I like about Blow is that, so far, he&#x27;s big into giving the dev options along with some (completely optional) syntactic sugar. The focus is on functionality, not ideology.