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Haskell and Erlang come to mind. COBOL, if you really want a distinct comparison. It might just be me, I wouldn't take my off the cuff commentary too seriously
by zebraflask 9y ago
Haskell and Erlang come to mind. COBOL, if you really want a distinct comparison.
It might just be me, I wouldn't take my off the cuff commentary too seriously. I was kind of surprised when I started to learn Rust that the Internet makes it sound like this incredibly difficult and arcane language, and I thought, after getting a grasp on the basics, that it was much like a fine-grained Node. It's a nice language, I like it, personally.
- kbenson 9y agoWell, those are significantly different languages, one in paradigm and the other in implementation. I think most people are just used to comparing it to more common contemporary languages. If you have experience with other scripting/dynamic languages (Python, Ruby, Perl), JavaScript often feels much closer to them. If you have some experience with C or C++, portions of Rust seem really similar there as well. JS and Rust don't really seem any more similar to me than Python and C++. There are similarities in both, but likely just because there are current trends in language design that get followed, and languages steal good ideas liberally from each other.
- zebraflask 9y agoI think you're articulating what I more or less intended to say far better than I actually did, thanks. :)