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Re:Swift – observations from Rust’s original designer by scriptproof on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @02:35AM (#7838449)
It is common when a new language appears to authors to see similarity with their own language. Actually, most of the features of Swift were already implemented in some older language. Extended pattern matching for example exists in Scala.
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Re:Swift – observations from Rust’s original designer by ibotty on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @03:35AM (#7838567)
... and in many other languages way before scala.
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