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		Jtsummers on May 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dave Herman’s contributions to Rust 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).

sireat on May 3, 2021 [–]

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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