"Rust" language
Nick Sabalausky
a at a.a
Thu Jul 8 20:53:41 PDT 2010
"Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message
news:i16228$1e2g$1 at digitalmars.com...
> "bearophile" <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote in message
> news:i15t6h$16jv$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Found the new system language named Rust, currently in development stage
>> by Mozilla group:
>> http://wiki.github.com/graydon/rust/language-faq
>> http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4009
>> https://github.com/downloads/graydon/rust/rust-2010-07-08-snap.pdf
>>
>> It uses both a more normal GC and reference count, for different
>> purposes. This can be a good idea.
>> It allows to use both mutable and immutable data, the default is
>> immutable.
>> It uses an idea named "Typestate" that I have just started reading about.
>> Logging is built-in and done widely. It tries to follows some of the
>> reliability ideas from Erlang.
>> It looks quite more complete than the Go language.
>>
>
> A language from Mozilla, huh?
>
> Prediction: Each version will include arbitrary-but-non-optional breaking
> changes, but only for the things that worked fine, and better, before.
>
> Ok, yea, I know that's a lousy joke...but so is Mozilla! Zing!
>
Man...And I normally complain about trolls... ;)
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