[janered]

Interesting that initial implementation was in Scala but then they switched to Rust because of minimal runtime, language embeddability, functional paradigms, community and high quality packages. The hype bandwagon is so real in here. So basically one could say the same for several other well established languages, e.g. Haskell. Also what saddens me is that everyone forgets about D which has the same benefits and a syntax that does not make scratch your eyes out, especially when it comes to FP. Also D has not actually "skipped the leg day" ;)