Mozilla Rust 0.1

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:40:46 -0500, Alex Rønne Petersen  
<xtzgzorex at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 24-01-2012 23:50, Caligo wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 1:50 AM, dennis luehring<dl.soluz at gmx.net>   
>> wrote:
>>> The Rust compiler 0.1 is unleashed
>>>
>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/opgxd/mozilla_and_the_rust_community_release_rust_01_a/
>>>
>>> looks nice - but rusts #fmt macro is nothing compared to  
>>> std.metastrings
>>> and is not even library based :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> What does this _announcement_ have to do with D?
>
> There is plenty to be learned from other languages, including Rust (in  
> particular, its way of handling closures/function literals). IMO the D  
> community should be willing to look at other languages for ideas and  
> inspiration.

I think the point was, this belongs not in the D announcement NG, which  
should be for strictly D related announcements, but rather in the main D  
NG.

-Steve