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Re:Dave Herman’s contributions to Rust by sireat on Monday May 03, 2021 @10:35AM (#27025592)
Syntax wise Rust seems heavily inspired by the "good parts" of Scala.

- Pattern matching via "match"

- if being an expression (among most things)

Those are both found in Scala.

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Re:Dave Herman’s contributions to Rust by lgessler on Monday May 03, 2021 @10:53AM (#27025802)
Didn't Scala get both of those things from ML?
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Re:Dave Herman’s contributions to Rust by Jtsummers on Monday May 03, 2021 @11:32AM (#27026375)
Yes, and Rust has more direct lineage to OCaml than Scala (initial version was written in OCaml, and the language had a more ML-ish syntax early on).
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Re:Dave Herman’s contributions to Rust by sireat on Monday May 03, 2021 @11:57AM (#27026709)
I guess then it would be more correct to say that Scala and Rust share a common inspiration in ML languages.
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