Rust is meant to be a practical language, not a research project, so it’s not playing the game of firsts: http://venge.net/graydon/talks/intro-talk-2.pdf http:

Rust is meant to be a practical language, not a research project, so it’s not playing the game of firsts: http://venge.net/graydon/talks/intro-talk-2.pdf http://venge.net/graydon/talks/intro-talk-2.pdf > Rust is a language that mostly cribs from past languages. Nothing new […] > Rust picks from 80s / early 90s languages