For me it looks like a more pleasant, productive and safer native language than C++ with emphasis on readability and safety. It's definitely inspired by other languages with similar goals but I wouldn't consider it defined by them.

One of its Co Creators @jntrnr was on both the Rust core language and TypeScript language teams which was how they were able to build the first rust based compiler + VSCode static analysis so quickly. Once the language was capable enough they rewrote the compiler in Jakt where it's now self hosting.

Excited to track its trajectory given how fast they were able to develop it, which already has a nice development experience in VSCode.

[1] https://twitter.com/jntrnr

Jakt looks very much like Swift. Objects are reference counted, structs are always value types, all function arguments require labels, no semicolons.. it's clear that Kling has worked for Apple.

I like the language! It is so much more readable than Rust. I might switch from Rust to Jakt once version 1.0 has been published.

Funny, because I feel that affine types make me much more productive in Rust :)

Comptime would be nice to have, though!