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Have you tried Go, Scala or Rust? All of those language are from their separate leagues, how can you compare swift with them?

• mattdw 11y ago
  In my experience, in the wide world of programming languages Rust and Swift are really not very far apart. Swift's designers even cited Rust as an influence.
  • steveklabnik 11y ago
    > Swift's designers even cited Rust as an influence. Specifically, http://nondot.org/sabre/ http://nondot.org/sabre/ > Of course, it also greatly benefited from the > experiences hard-won by many other languages in the > field, drawing ideas from Objective-C, Rust, Haskell, > Ruby, Python, C#, CLU, and far too many others to list.
    • shaneofalltrad 11y ago
      ...you can say they looked at <add your favourite language here> as an influence.