Both are playing around in similar spaces, both shared team members for a while, both have a take an automatic memory management that isn’t a garbage collector, both were sponsored by a primary company for a while (Swift still is, I think). There’s a lot of differences too.
And congrats on starting a language project, even if Just for Fun (Linux). ;)
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