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### What languages inspired Bolt? ### What languages inspired Bolt?
Rust and Haskell are two of my favorite languages that you'll notice Bolt Rust and Haskell are two of my favorite languages that you'll notice Bolt
shares a lot of its syntax and semantics with. shares a lot of its syntax and semantics with. Rust is the language that inspired Bolt's syntax,
while Haskell helped guide the type checker and standard library design.
Traces of other languages can be found, too.
The macro system was inspired by Racket's macro system,
and the sucesses of garbage-collected languages like Go, JavaScript, Python and Java convinced me that
this feature is a must-have.
All in all, Bolt is a mixture of many very different programming languages, and I believe this mixture makes it unique.
### What's the difference between Bolt and Rust? ### What's the difference between Bolt and Rust?
I really like Rust, but if I just care about writing an application I believe Right now, Bolt looks a lot like Rust. I think the developers of the Rust programming language did a great job at
Rust's memory model with its borrow checker is overkill. Having a garbage creating a language that is both pleasant to read and write and is open to a lot of optimisations. However,
collector might result in a performance penalty, but I believe that as Bolt does not come with the advanced borrow checker of the Rust language. It simply isn't needed, because Bolt uses
long as the user does not notice it, it does not really matter. a garbage collector underneath, and hopefully will contain some optimisations in the future that can make your programs
as fast as Rust.
## License ## License