Nice post -- it's inspired me to go ahead and try out Rust. I've been watching it for the past few month.<p>Also, have you taken a look at Julia: <a href="http://julialang.org/" rel="nofollow">http://julialang.org/</a><p>If you like Haskell, you should take a look at Julia, which manages to integrate a lot of the features of Haskell and Lisp, but with a Octave/R interface. Performance is a central goal of the project.