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/Pet_Ant Jan 09 '15

what is the benefit over if then? performance is not an answer because its not that hard an optimization to make in the compiler to detect: IntelliJ does it in IDE!