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Mozilla Releases Rust 0.1

Posted by timothy on from the is-it-ironic-that-rust-has-no-c? dept.

MrSeb writes "After more than five years in the pipeline, Mozilla Labs and the Rust community have released the first alpha of the Rust programming language compiler. The Rust language emphasizes concurrency and memory safety, and — if everything goes to plan — is ultimately being groomed to replace C++ as Mozilla's compiled language of choice, with Firefox (or parts of it) eventually being re-written in Rust."

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  1. Great by jcreus · · Score: 1, Funny

    Now we will have 1000002 different programming languages (final 2 so that Slashdotters understand it's not binary). And an obligatory XKCD reference.

  2. Re:ultimately as fast as C++ by jbeaupre · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's no language out there "as fast as C++" across the board for everything you can write in C++.

    Assembly?

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  3. Re:Another compiler? Seriously? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They need a special compiler that doesn't use minor version numbers so they can catch up to Chrome by the end of the year.