Mozilla Rust 0.1

[Timon Gehr]

On 01/25/2012 07:39 PM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
> On 24-01-2012 23:51, Caligo wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 2:45 PM, bearophile<bearophileHUGS at lycos.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Ary Manzana:
>>>
>>>> And also, what's the advantage of the language?
>>>
>>> Its author is a very intelligent person, worth respect. Rust has both
>>> typestates and variable owning, and probably something else too, I
>>> have to study it better. It seems willing to become a direct
>>> competitor of D2.
>>>
>>> Bye,
>>> bearophile
>>
>>
>> Maybe not intelligent enough, otherwise he would join the D development.
>
> That's rather harsh and not much better than swearing religiously by a
> language. Every language has its reasons for existing. (And no, there
> *is no such thing* as a general-purpose language; that assertion simply
> does not hold.)
>
> - Alex

That probably depends how narrow you want the definition of 
general-purpose to be.