Mozilla Releases Rust 0.1

[Daniel]

After more than five years in the pipeline, Mozilla Labs and the Rust community have released the first alpha of the Rust programming language compiler. The Rust language emphasizes concurrency and memory safety, and ? if everything goes to plan ? is ultimately being groomed to replace C++ as Mozilla's compiled language of choice, with Firefox (or parts of it) eventually being re-written in Rust.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing...urp-firefoxs-c

Daniel Reviewed by Daniel on 24th Jan 2012. Mozilla Releases Rust 0.1 After more than five years in the pipeline, Mozilla Labs and the Rust community have released the first alpha of the Rust programming language compiler. The Rust language emphasizes concurrency and memory safety, and ? if everything goes to plan ? is ultimately being groomed to replace C++ as Mozilla's compiled language of choice, with Firefox (or parts of it) eventually being re-written in Rust. Rating: 5

[foxman]

Interesting!

[Shahrukh]

Good News!

[venZlic]

wow, nice ! need to try it or learn it first

[PerMaFrOsT]

Do this language will improve memory comsuption of Firefox and their plugins/addons?

[Daniel]

So, Mozilla has kindly given the Open Source community yet another language to read about, learn, try out and (after some time) eventually master. And this just to handle a web browser? Sweet Moses.. What's the fuss all about? Can't Mozilla just give us the real favor and stick to a robust industry standard (C++) which has loads of talented and skilled contributors?

[Bretteo]

Another language on my list to learn... oh joy!