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Can someone with technical background explain me how does this language compare to Rust?

The syntax looks way easier to me (I'm familiar with ruby) than Rust, but are there any use cases where Ceylon targets over Rust and vice-versa?

EDIT: NM, the one is for systems programming (Rust) the other one is for high-level OOP (web-based apps, gui, etc.)

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I don't know Ceylon, but because it targets JVM/JS VMs, it's not suitable as a systems programming language - which Rust is especially useful for.

That's exactly right. Ceylon and Rust are both new languages, with, it seems to me, a fair amount of similarity in terms of overall philosophy, but they target quite distinct usecases. Ceylon -> VMs, Rust -> systems programming. And so quite fundamental differences between the languages arise out of that.

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