Anyone heard about the language? Decided to give it a try but it looks that it lacks in the quant/math department.

I'd never heard of it (and there's no reason why I would have)
anyone who's interested can try it out at try it out
If you click on "Hello World" on the top right of that page, you can see how to print "Hello World" in Rust

Rust is just another language. I fear Dominic Connor would call it a quiche language. It has some nice features, but so do other mainstream languages. It's in VS2015.

It's not even in the top 50. Of course, you can do it for fun if you have the time. A rough guess is it had [5,10]% of the functionality of C#, which is a good one if you are building quant libraries and such like.

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

For production, use C/C++, C# and Java in the main. And Python is 'hot' it seems but I am not sure why really.

The language wars are over. 

Cuchulainn wrote:

Rust is just another language. I fear Dominic Connor would call it a quiche language. It has some nice features, but so do other mainstream languages. It's in VS2015.

It's not even in the top 50. Of course, you can do it for fun if you have the time. A rough guess is it had [5,10]% of the functionality of C#, which is a good one if you are building quant libraries and such like.

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

For production, use C/C++, C# and Java in the main. And Python is 'hot' it seems but I am not sure why really.

The language wars are over. 

Python is fantastic, it has an awesome library. Compared with C/C++ is a turtoise, I mean real math calcs

ExSan wrote:

Cuchulainn wrote:

Rust is just another language. I fear Dominic Connor would call it a quiche language. It has some nice features, but so do other mainstream languages. It's in VS2015.

It's not even in the top 50. Of course, you can do it for fun if you have the time. A rough guess is it had [5,10]% of the functionality of C#, which is a good one if you are building quant libraries and such like.

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

For production, use C/C++, C# and Java in the main. And Python is 'hot' it seems but I am not sure why really.

The language wars are over. 

Python is fantastic, it has an awesome library. Compared with C/C++ is a turtoise, I mean real math calcs

Fair enough. Apart from libs and prototyping what else? Would you use it to create a production quant library?
In C++/C# you have Eigen, MathNet, Quantlib, Alglib, Boost.. I do admit C++ could have more.

Different strokes for different folks.

Cuchulainn wrote:

It has some nice features, but so do other mainstream languages. It's in VS2015.

It has ADT, what most mainstream languages don't. As an OCaml developer, it is a must have feature It is also supposed to handle first-class functions (when I looked into the language (at his alpha stage), it was not the case, but it was planned). The ownership concept is also interesting to avoid manual memory handling, without the cost of a GC.

However, this language is not the easiest to learn, thus I lost interest in it (there are a lot of better ways to spend my free time).

A lot has been happening with types in the main mainstream language (C++) over the past few years. It's becoming a post-type language, just as we've become a post-truth society

VivienB wrote:

It has ADT, what most mainstream languages don't.

we're home even when you're not?

VivienB is spot on.

If you are doing mathsy applications, there's only one suitable programming paradigm.

katastrofa wrote:

A lot has been happening with types in the main mainstream language (C++) over the past few years. It's becoming a post-type language, just as we've become a post-truth society

It is quite surprising IMHO that std::tuple is supported since C++11, only.  std::function<> is a good addition.