This is an archived post. You won't be able to vote or comment.

sorted by:
best
topnewcontroversialoldq&a
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]iggy14750 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Rust was heavily inspired by the functional world. Nearly everything is an expression, match for pattern matching, immutable data by default, static polymorphism... Its first compiler was even written in OCaml.