On Thursday, June 20, 2013 21:05:46 TommiT wrote: > Currently, I think they're discussing if it's possible to add > mutable external iterators to Rust, which doesn't seem possible, > because the strong memory safety Rust has chosen to operate > within is quite restrictive. And if you can't have external > iteration, you can't have generic algorithms, and no proper > generic programming. I think that's a pretty good argument > against Rust at the moment, but who knows, maybe they can figure > it out. There's some info: > http://www.marshut.com/nxyuu/the-future-of-iterators-in-rust.html > > But I wouldn't go around bashing Rust, it seems a very nice > language.
I haven't really looked into Rust, but from everything I've heard, it sounds like it's still very much in research and development mode, so I don't think that we can really have any clue where it'll be when it's actually ready for production use. It sounds like they have a lot of interesting ideas that they're trying out, which may or may not pan out, and we'll just have to wait and see where they end up. - Jonathan M Davis