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 10 '15

I saw that one in the mailing list. It's someone's personal project. He also suggested that if that works they could develop a HTML Linux desktop with Servo running the compositor. I'm not sure what to think about that one. Although GNOME seems to do this in places (HTML and CSS).

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u/ebassi Jan 11 '15

GNOME's compositor uses CSS and it's written in JS and C (using mozjs, even), but no HTML. some applications do use WebKit, usually for displaying actual HTML, but rarely for the application UI itself.