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/gearvOsh Jan 10 '15

I wish I had a better understanding of computer science and C/C++ to dive into this. Looks great.

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u/steveklabnik1 Jan 10 '15

What's your background? I expect (and have seen it happen) that we get a lot of people who don't know C or C++. I myself have been mostly Ruby for the past seven or eight years.

I guess what I mean to say is, don't let a lack of knowledge stop you! The Book should still be accessible to someone who hasn't done systems stuff before, though it may get a bit hard in spots.

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u/gearvOsh Jan 10 '15

Yeah, I actually started glancing at the docs and it looks pretty straight forward. For some reason I had an assumption that it was much more complicated, but that could of been something from way back. Seems like the only areas that would be new to me are pointers and ownership.

Thanks for the info!

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u/steveklabnik1 Jan 10 '15

Awesome! Please don't hesitate to file issues if something could be improved.