> Maybe they could have started with rust and added on what they needed Unlikely, I think, because of timelines. Swift’s first public release was in June 2014.

> Maybe they could have started with rust and added on what they needed Unlikely, I think, because of timelines. Swift’s first public release was in June 2014. Rust is a few years older (first public release in January 2012), but that wasn’t the rust we have today. It still had garbage collection, for example (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(programming_language)#2012–2015:_Evolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(programming_language)#20...)