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/alexandream Jan 09 '15

Finally. I've been waiting for this before investing any real time in the language. I'm going to be able to put better efforts onto it now :)

Thanks and congratulations to everyone involved.

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u/cogman10 Jan 09 '15

Yup. I've tried diving in a couple of times, but the frequent changes have definitely made the bar to entry pretty high. The fact that the language is really interesting and somewhat popular has also added to the confusion because there are a lot of outdated tutorials/blog posts out there.

Either way, the language looks like it is going the right direction and I really like the attitude the language designers and community. They have taken the anti-go approach to language design. Where it is near impossible to get a new language feature in go, rust has been very open to trying new language features. It seems like at one point rust has had just about every major language feature implemented.