[IshKebab]

Really? What do you think comes from Ruby? Rust mostly seems to be inspired by ML and C++.

Actually I just checked the "official" list and they only list the closure syntax which seems pretty minor:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/influences.html

[littlestymaar]

A significant portion of the prominent community members come from Ruby so I guess there must be something …

[jaggederest]

Iterator style, chaining, traits, blocks all feel very rubyesque, and expression syntax as well, plus the cargo toolchain is very bundler-informed.

[leafario2]

Expression orientation

[IshKebab]

That's from functional programming.

[saghm]

I don't think anyone claimed that Ruby and Rust were the only two languages with those features, just that they're something they both have in common.

[IshKebab]

The claim is that Rust took espression-orientation from Ruby. That's unlikely - it is much more inspired by FP languages which are also expression oriented.

[saghm]

Ah, you're right, I definitely misread that the first time. I think the only thing that Rust probably was directly inspired by Ruby on was the syntax for closures (which is not exactly the same, but when the closure uses a block rather than returning an expression directly it's similar, and I vaguely recall seeing something about that being intentional).