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A comment on Rust 1.1 Stable, the Community Subteam, and RustCamp. Parent comment

Re:Rust 1.1 Stable, the Community Subteam, and RustCamp by jpgvm on Friday June 26, 2015 @05:55AM (#9783244)
While I generally agree with the sentiment it's worth mentioning that Rust preceded Swift and any similarities are the result of the Swift designers being influenced by Rust, not the other way around.

Rust also has the equivalent of ARC in the form of the Rc and Arc containers, Rc does reference counting without atomics, Arc with atomics (for when you need to do reference counting with thread safety).

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Re:Rust 1.1 Stable, the Community Subteam, and RustCamp by burntsushi on Friday June 26, 2015 @07:00AM (#9783492)
The feature in question (`if let`) was added pretty recently. The RFC even mentions Swift! ;-) https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0160-if-l...
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Re:Rust 1.1 Stable, the Community Subteam, and RustCamp by sinistersnare on Friday June 26, 2015 @10:16AM (#9784485)
Yup, we hard stole if-let from Swift ;). We even made it better!
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