In my experience, in the wide world of programming languages Rust and Swift are ...

steveklabnik · on June 9, 2015

> Swift's designers even cited Rust as an influence.

     > Of course, it also greatly benefited from the
     > experiences hard-won by many other languages in the
     > field, drawing ideas from Objective-C, Rust, Haskell,
     > Ruby, Python, C#, CLU, and far too many others to list.

shaneofalltrad · on June 9, 2015

...you can say they looked at <add your favourite language here> as an influence.