Dave Herman’s contributions to Rust

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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