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posted by takyon on Friday May 15 2015, @10:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the already-rusty dept.

After many years of waiting, version 1.0 of the Rust programming language has finally been released. The Rust home page describes Rust as "a systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents nearly all segfaults, and guarantees thread safety."

Thanks to the hard work of noted Rust core team members Yehuda Katz and Steve Klabnik, Rust is now poised to become a serious competitor to established systems programming languages like C and C++.

The announcement has brought much jubilation to the followers of Rust, who have been eagerly awaiting this milestone release for so long. With only 1,940 open issues and over 11,500 issues already closed, Rust is finally ready for users to build fantastically reliable software systems using it.

 
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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @11:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @11:22PM (#183556)

    This is a good question. When I last submitted an LLVM bug, the bug number was in the 21000s. LLVM is a lot more complex than Rust is, but it's written in C++ instead of Rust. Why does a complex compiler system (supporting multiple programming languages!) written in C++ only have say 25000 bugs, but a Rust (and only Rust!) compiler written in Rust has around half that number? Theoretically the Rust number should be a whole lot lower, or the C++ bug count should be a whole lot higher. But the empirical evidence is showing the opposite to be true! The big system written in the "unsafe" language has fewer bugs than the much smaller system written in the "safer" language!

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