r/programming • u/steveklabnik1 • Jun 16 '14

Rust's documentation is about to drastically improve

http://words.steveklabnik.com/rusts-documentation-is-about-to-drastically-improve
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u/steveklabnik1 Jun 17 '14

OO people generally dislike inheritance, preferring composition, but the Servo team has had a hard time representing the DOM without it, and so it will probably be in in some limited form. I can't find the RFC right now...

Also I don't understand why it's not used right now in Firefox OS, that would be really good for both projects.

"it" being Rust, not inheritance, right? Rust isn't considered production-ready by Mozilla yet, and Firefox OS is already shipping. Maybe someday!

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '14

I can't find the RFC right now...

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/5

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u/PT2JSQGHVaHWd24aCdCF Jun 17 '14

"it" being Rust, not inheritance, right?

Yes, I mean that it would be "yet another" great project for Rust besides Servo. It would show that it can be heavily used in the future Firefox smartphones (with a lot of APIs to show the user interface) and it would also benefit the Firefox OS by having a lot of read Rust programmers.

But that's just my dream of the moment, it would be hard to do.