Simon Janes "The Road to Rust 1.0" blog.rust-lang.org... #rust

Mark Dain I've been following Rust since, I think 0.6, but I haven't written any code in it yet. Once it hits 1.0 I'm definately going to give it a go. It looks like a real competitor to Go.

Simon Janes I'm keeping tabs on it until it gets to that 1.0 as well. I'm not sure about Go's shared-library or integration status, I know its run-time is pretty big. I'm thinking that the Rust design was bottom-up, "how can we make a safe language?" and Go more top-down, "how can we make a more productive language?" Rust "ownership" of data looks to catch a huge number of potential bugs.

Mark Dain Didn't they remove ownership or was that just pointer type? Either way it's a very interesting language and I'm sure Cargo, their package manager, will fill any holes the small standard library doesn't cover. For the record, Go's batteries included standard library is one thing I really love about it. That and godoc and gofmt!

Simon Janes gofmt is so critical for quashing re-indent-ligion. Rust I think may have something similar in the works.