Rust 1.0 Released · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Soulskill on Friday May 15, 2015 @06:40AM from the ironing-out-the-biggest-wrinkles dept.

TopSpin writes: Rust 1.0 has arrived, and release parties in Paris, LA and San Francisco are taking place today. From the Rust Programming Language blog: "The current Rust language is the result of a lot of iteration and experimentation. The process has worked out well for us: Rust today is both simpler and more powerful than we originally thought would be possible. But all that experimentation also made it difficult to maintain projects written in Rust, since the language and standard library were constantly changing. The 1.0 release marks the end of that churn. This release is the official beginning of our commitment to stability, and as such it offers a firm foundation for building applications and libraries. From this point forward, breaking changes are largely out of scope (some minor caveats apply, such as compiler bugs)." You can read about specific changes in the changelog.

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Re:So much wasted potential. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-05-15 08:32 · Score: 0, Flamebait

>Go, C++14, Ada 2012, OCaml, D, Scala, and even C# (now that core .NET code has been opened sourced and ported to non-Windows systems) offer everything Rust does, plus more.
No, they don't. But you're free to pretend they do, if you'd like. Not everyone NEEDS something like Rust, after all.