[alexandercrohde]

I don't know why you'd be dismissive of that comparison. Scala is more like Rust than any other language he discusses.

[wffurr]

I mean sure, Scala is a great language and has a lot more in common with Rust than most languages, but it's fundamentally designed for a different role than Rust. Rust is designed as a "systems language", whereas Scala's dependence on the JVM is a non-starter for such a role.

You could say instead that Rust is a Scala-inspired systems language. Not just Scala, obviously, but by functional programming concepts like algebraic data types and type inference. Rust isn't even really a functional language itself; it's still an imperative language.

[tomlu]

Because performance is a P0 concern to a lot of people. Rust (and C++) has performance as a primary goal, Scala does not.

[alexandercrohde]

Did you even watch the video? The guy is comparing rust to things like Python which is a pretty silly comparison, relative to scala.

[carlmr]

Everybody knows python, few people know Scala. Isn't that enough of a reason?