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This is an interesting new language but I'd be interested to know - what is the motivation behind its creation?
by ses 15y ago
This is an interesting new language but I'd be interested to know - what is the motivation behind its creation?
- jurre 15y agoMarijn Haverbeke, a freelancer hired by Mozilla to work on it mentioned that they plan on using it for their browser development to replace C++: http://lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com/2012/04/lisp-hackers-marijn-haverbeke.html http://lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com/2012/04/lisp-hackers-marij... "Rust is a programming language that's supposed to fit the C++ niche, without the insanity of actual C++. If the project works out, and it's going swimmingly so far, Mozilla will try to apply it to writing a next-generation browser, without the constant danger of buffer overrun exploits and threading bugs that comes with C++. True to Mozilla's spirit, all development on Rust is happening in the open, on github."
- sanxiyn 15y agoMozilla is writing Servo, a parallel browser engine, with Rust. http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2012/03/28/servo-design/ http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2012/03/28/serv...
- _delirium 15y agoWriting a new programming language from scratch in order to enable the writing of a new HTML rendering engine from scratch is at least ambitious!
- bzbarsky 15y agoIs it more or less ambitious than trying to take an existing large C++ single-threaded codebase and try to multithread it without introducing bugs or running into Amdahl's Law early on? That's the key question here...