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ethinyesterday at 2:12 PM4 repliesview on HN

Am I the only one who saw this syntax and immediately though "Man, this looks almost identical to Rust with a few slight variations"?


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CupricTeayesterday at 2:20 PM

It seems to just be Rust for people who are allergic to using Rust.

It looks like a fun project, but I'm not sure what this adds to the point where people would actually use it over C or just going to Rust.

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suioiryesterday at 2:21 PM

I thought the same and felt it looked really out of place to have I8 and F32 instead of i8 and f32 when so much else looks just like Rust. Especially when the rest of the types are all lower case.

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turbotimyesterday at 2:47 PM

My immediate thought was it looked a lot like Swift