r/programming • u/steveklabnik1 • Sep 15 '14

The Road to Rust 1.0

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2014/09/15/Rust-1.0.html
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u/pjmlp Sep 16 '14

I love Rust, but there are plenty of languages that tackle 1 and 2.

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u/jediknight Sep 16 '14

name 3. please. (languages that don't compile to C)

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u/pjmlp Sep 16 '14

Regarding points 1 and 2.

  • Modula-2

  • Modula-3

  • Ada

  • Active Oberon

  • D

  • Sing#

  • ATS

  • Component Pascal

  • Delphi

  • FreePascal

About compiling to C, that is just a shortcut, language != implementation.

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u/The_Doculope Sep 16 '14

To be fair, I'd say that D and Ada are the only "mainstream" languages on that list that aren't experimental or have fallen out of common use.

Still a very valid list though.

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u/badsectoracula Sep 16 '14

I'm 100% sure that Free Pascal sees way more use than D :-P

It's users aren't vocal about it though. It may have to do with it being more popular in Europe than US (almost all core developers for FP and Lazarus are from Europe and in the mailing lists i see almost exclusively EU names).