Rust 1.17 Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Rust 1.17 Released

Judging by the massive Rust fan base in our forums, those of you reading this will be delighted today about the newest version of Rustlang, v1.17...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Rust-1.17-Released

[ColinP]

Rust? Never heard of it.

[andrei_me]

massive Rust fan base in our forums

Yep, +1

[Brophen]

This post should have been written in Rust /s

[davidbepo]

i feel like rust could have been better, the threading and safety stuff is fine but the syntax is overly complex

[Steffo]

i feel like rust could have been better, the threading and safety stuff is fine but the syntax is overly complex

Look at the release notes. They made it simpler declaring static strings. They are trying to make Rust from release to release simpler.

[CleanCut]

Rust is so awesome. I'm doing a project to port Apple's shell_cmds to Rust just to learn Rust faster.

[TheBlackCat]

Look at the release notes. They made it simpler declaring static strings. They are trying to make Rust from release to release simpler.

Which seems the opposite approach from how I would expect modern programming language development to proceed.

[winie]

i feel like rust could have been better, the threading and safety stuff is fine but the syntax is overly complex

Yes. Its syntax seems unusual at first for most people including myself. I think that's mainly because it's not C like.

[mmstick]

Rust is so awesome. I'm doing a project to port Apple's shell_cmds to Rust just to learn Rust faster.

You should contribute to the Ion shell that I have been working on. It is currently much faster than both Bash and Dash, with a cleaner syntax and support for first class arrays -- something other shells completely lack. I am continually looking for people to mentor into the project, as otherwise it's just me working on the project, and that's no good for such a big project to scale into the future. One of the areas needing work is implementing more shell commands as builtin commands.

https://github.com/redox-os/ion/

https://chat.redox-os.org/redox/channels/ion