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Wow. They're basically identical. Scala has a bit less boilerplate sometimes, but it's also older, so I guess Swift will get syntactical sugar to catch up in time.



Neither Scala nor Apache Groovy are listed in the 8 languages Swift was influenced by on its Wikipedia page. That Groovy link was written by the Apache's Groovy PMC chairperson, and is more wishful thinking that fact.


Yeah, I already knew what Wikipedia said. My point was that a lot of languages look similar.

Scala might have influenced Swift. Zip you go to the author's blog, he says lists those languages and says many more that he doesn't name:

http://nondot.org/sabre/




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