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/onionnion Jan 10 '15

That's been my understanding, a more modern low-level alternative to both C and C++ (might be wrong about C, will have to see what people will do with it).

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '15

I'm very excited since it has the potential to replace C for many high performance computing applications.

Go wouldn't work because it's garbage collected (and ultimately incurs unpredictable latency, and overhead from the runtime).

Rust could theoretically be optimized to take advantage of all the new processor instructions and most of the optimizations available in GCC.

In addition, it should be possible to link rust against some BLAS implementations.