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sorry to high jack the topic, whats the big deal with Rust? I have heard it has memory safety, but are the language syntax and standard library stable?
by tmaly 11y ago
sorry to high jack the topic, whats the big deal with Rust? I have heard it has memory safety, but are the language syntax and standard library stable?
- allan_s 11y agojust my opinion, but at first I was mostly a C/C++ developer, I like the idea of controlling everything and not wasting memory, and the idea of being really fast as well as the idea of compile time type checking . But for a living I have to write websites/webservices etc. so most I have to use PHP etc. So Rust is hype (let's admit it, new is always better, like your new toy for christmas) and its standard library come with enough webservices-friendly things to make it sexy to develop small webservices with it. Also it introduces a lot of interesting features (functionnal programming, immutability by default, primitives to write parallel code) in a C-syntax language that was before in some more exotic language.
- NaNaN 11y agoLearning Rust is just fun. The Rust book teaches me thread safety in the first place through the ownership and borrowing system. And I am going to see more titles about Rust with "fast and safe". But it doesn't mean the program is stable. :P
- steveklabnik 11y ago> but are the language syntax and standard library stable? We had a 1.0 release two weeks ago, so the syntax and almost all of the standard library is. The things that aren't are clearly marked, and aren't able to be used from a release build, so you aren't affected by their instability.