alt Hacker NewsAs a long time ruby enjoyer and now also rust enjoyer, the core syntax and systems of rust are very rubyesque in a lot of ways, you can tell that some of the core contributors liked the language.
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IshKebab • yesterday at 9:43 AM
Really? What do you think comes from Ruby? Rust mostly seems to be inspired by ML and C++.
Actually I just checked the "official" list and they only list the closure syntax which seems pretty minor:
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yeah ruby API ideas and the _why poignant guide specifically, they were very influential in programming in general. a number of early rust devs came from ruby as well. all original authors of cargo worked on ruby's bundler earlier. etc