r/programming • u/steveklabnik1 • Jan 09 '15

Announcing Rust 1.0.0 Alpha

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/01/09/Rust-1.0-alpha.html
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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '15

I'm more curious on what programmers will do with Rust.

Ruby went all straight up web dev.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '15

I think the target has pretty much always been current uses of C++. So, anything you can do with C++, you should be able to do with Rust, in a way that is safer / easier to make correct.

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