A Rust frontend for GCC

You can track the rough progress towards the 1.0 milestone on their Issue tracker ( https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/milestones?state=o... ). Things are still being added to it, as major (breaking!) changes are still being made to the language (the changes to Managed Pointers and Vector are two big ones coming up, while the IO subsystem changes were ones that just landed in, I believe, 0.8).

There's no timeline yet, although I think (think!) a Rust dev guessed that they might have a clear path to 1.0 in about a year (not that they'd have 1.0 out then, just something akin to a timeline). Rust feels like, once it stabilizes, that it could be a true alternative to C and C++ as a "systems" language.