On Thursday, 20 June 2013 at 19:24:52 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
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
Samsung just placed a few of their developers into the Rust team.
Their are contributing to Rust development, but the main goal is
the improvement of Servo, the web browser that is being written
in Rust and used as test field for the language.
Why Samsung got involved is anyone's guess, but it might have to
do with their handsets, Tizen, or whatever.
--
Paulo
