Marijn 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-uni

Marijn 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."