4 ms·

I'm more curious as to the decision not to stick with Rust. Sounds like there was a prototype. I'm guessing there were some libraries missing. Would be cool to

• dikaiosune 11y ago
  Rust's ecosystem is super young, and up until May '15 the language had breaking changes occurring pretty frequently (daily? I wasn't using it back then so I'm not sure). I've been really enjoying using it, but I imagine that this startup began work before Rust hit 1.0, or very nearly afterward.
  • steveklabnik 11y ago
    Sometimes more than once per day :) Crates.io has 3700 crates in stock. That said, there are still gaps, like with any young ecosystem. It's really progressing nicely though. And given Rust's domain, there are packages for really interesting stuff, like OS dev...
• avita1 11y ago
  Ditto. I'm also curious if D ever came up. My impression is that it was (until recently) much more stable than rust.
  • bluejekyll 11y ago
    Rust has been remarkable stable since the 1.0 realease.
    • avita1 11y ago
      Sure, I was referring to pre-1.0 rust ;)