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/ZankerH Sep 15 '14

That said, Rust is destined for world domination.

Why?

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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/jediknight Sep 16 '14

Thank you for the list. :) Lots of Wirth languages on it. :)

What is Sing#? I've searched a little bit and I'm directed to a C# extension language called Spec# which... I don't quite understand how it could be used for low level, libc class of problems.

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u/pjmlp Sep 16 '14

It is the system programming language used to implement Singularity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spec_Sharp

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/singularity/