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Rust may well be, but it is not out yet? Erlang is mainstream, but being functional probably not open to consideration for 99% of developers.

by smegel 10y ago

dalke 10y ago
Rust, version 1.0.0, was released in May 2015, so over a year ago. 1.9 came out 10 days ago. Is that not out enough for you?
- smegel 10y ago
  I have no idea. Is the language spec fully implemented by a robust and stable compiler/runtime? If so, I'll use it today!
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  - geofft 10y ago
    Yes, the compiler has fully implemented everything the language is intended to do since the 1.0 release a bit over a year ago. (Work focuses on the compiler and standard library itself; there isn't a separate spec doc that is updated to do things that aren't yet implemented or being implemented, so it's more like Python or GHC than R6RS or C++.) The compiler and the language are both stable; there's been no "runtime" in a strict sense since a few months 1.0, but there's a standard library which is usually statically linked in, and both the language and the standard library are covered by a very strong stability guarantee (more-or-less, code that works today and isn't deliberately doing something stupid will work indefinitely, as there are no plans for a Rust 2.0). Plenty of people are using it in production. So I'd go with "Yes."
- foota 10y ago
  @smegel, yes it is.
- nzjrs 10y ago
  I worry about the bus factor of rust. I was at the fosdem rust meet up / devroom and it was 95% Mozilla folk
  - majewsky 10y ago
    There might be a bias in that metric: Mozilla employees are probably more likely to afford the trip to FOSDEM.
  - kibwen 10y ago
    Less than half of the people listed at https://www.rust-lang.org/team.html https://www.rust-lang.org/team.html are Mozilla employees, and the rust-lang/rust repo has over 1,400 contributors. I wouldn't worry too much about all of Mozilla getting hit by a bus. :)

Rust may well be, but it is not out yet? Erlang is mainstream, but being functional probably not open to consideration for 99% of developers.

by smegel 10y ago

Rust may well be, but it is not out yet? Erlang is mainstream, but being functional probably not open to consideration for 99% of developers.

dalke 10y ago

Rust, version 1.0.0, was released in May 2015, so over a year ago. 1.9 came out 10 days ago. Is that not out enough for you?

smegel 10y ago
I have no idea. Is the language spec fully implemented by a robust and stable compiler/runtime? If so, I'll use it today!
- deleted 10y ago
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- geofft 10y ago
  Yes, the compiler has fully implemented everything the language is intended to do since the 1.0 release a bit over a year ago. (Work focuses on the compiler and standard library itself; there isn't a separate spec doc that is updated to do things that aren't yet implemented or being implemented, so it's more like Python or GHC than R6RS or C++.) The compiler and the language are both stable; there's been no "runtime" in a strict sense since a few months 1.0, but there's a standard library which is usually statically linked in, and both the language and the standard library are covered by a very strong stability guarantee (more-or-less, code that works today and isn't deliberately doing something stupid will work indefinitely, as there are no plans for a Rust 2.0). Plenty of people are using it in production. So I'd go with "Yes."
foota 10y ago
@smegel, yes it is.
nzjrs 10y ago
I worry about the bus factor of rust. I was at the fosdem rust meet up / devroom and it was 95% Mozilla folk
- majewsky 10y ago
  There might be a bias in that metric: Mozilla employees are probably more likely to afford the trip to FOSDEM.
- kibwen 10y ago
  Less than half of the people listed at https://www.rust-lang.org/team.html https://www.rust-lang.org/team.html are Mozilla employees, and the rust-lang/rust repo has over 1,400 contributors. I wouldn't worry too much about all of Mozilla getting hit by a bus. :)