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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. Another compiler? Seriously? by qrwe · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So, Mozilla has kindly given the Open Source community yet another language to read about, learn, try out and (after some time) eventually master. And this just to handle a web browser? Sweet Moses.. What's the fuss all about? Can't Mozilla just give us the real favor and stick to a robust industry standard (C++) which has loads of talented and skilled contributors?

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    1. 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.

  2. Wonderful! by Chemisor · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yet another solution in search of a problem.

  3. could the summary be less accurate? by fusiongyro · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the Rust Project FAQ:

    Are you going to use this to suddenly rewrite the browser and change everything? Is the Mozilla Corporation trying to force the community to use a new language?
    No. The Mozilla Corporation's involvement is at the labs level: the group concerned with doing experiments. The point is to explore ideas. There is currently no plan to incorporate any Rust-based technology into Firefox.
    ...
    What are some non-goals?
    ...To cover the complete feature-set of C++, or any other language. It should provide majority-case features.

    The absolutely brazen, bald-faced misinterpretation of what's going on here is stunning. They could not miss the point by more!