With this invaluable insight, I believe this discussion is concluded.

On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 10:49 PM, Louis Roché <louis@louisroche.net> wrote:

By the way, to the people calling the syntax ugly and its users idiots, please tone yourselves down and think about why OCaml has been around in a niche for 20 years but Rust took off in less than five.
 
"That's the reason why IT is a pop culture, not an engineering field"