On Sun, 2014-08-10 at 04:37 +0000, Puming via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: […] > I didn't know about that. I don't actually know much about Rust > except the hype on hackernews :-) > > But nonetheless, this indicates that a serious application like a > browser is a good driving force for a language to evolve.
There is a Rust user group in London, it is having it's second meeting next week, and I am not going to be able to go :-( The first London Go user group meeting (at which I spoke) was about 20 people, within a year it became 120 people and 80 people unable to get in due to space limitations. Initial meeting were much more tutorial and introductory style, now the Go user group meetings are about applications and experiences, and indeed things that need to change about the language. If the Rust experience is even remotely like the Go experience there will be a strong group of users creating many, many good (and many, many, many bad) systems using it very quickly. As noted earlier in another thread there are maybe two or three D users within 50 miles of London so no meetings actually happen as yet. If we were able to push D as the language Facebook and other large companies are funding development of, this would be a hook to get some people to a meeting, much as Go was funded by Google and Rust is funded by Mozilla — Rust user group meetings are currently at Mozilla's offices in London, Go was originally meeting wherever but is now sponsored by CloudFlare and meets at Forward offices. Step 1 is obviously to have a Meetup group. Noticebly Go and Rust have an International overarching group and then each local group is separate. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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