We have pattern matching, traits, generics, etc. in Scala (and OCaml?) already. The syntax isn't the same, but draws from the same lineage. If you took away the

We have pattern matching, traits, generics, etc. in Scala (and OCaml?) already. The syntax isn't the same, but draws from the same lineage. If you took away the memory management, I think Rust would be just another ML descendent and I don't know what the motivating feature for the language would be. I could be off base. I haven't programmed in Rust. I've just skimmed through the documentation and little code projects written in it every once and a while.