A Rust frontend for GCC

Posted Dec 9, 2013 13:37 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: A Rust frontend for GCC by bgmarete
Parent article: A Rust frontend for GCC

What? Go and Rust may have had similar goals (courting C++ developers, being a systems language, and maybe more), but Go has ended up getting more Python and Ruby developers than C++. I think Rust is a much better candidate than Go for a replacement there because of the stronger guarantees it can make (e.g., pointer lifetimes, safe/unsafe blocks) and the lack of a required runtime with GC and such. To be fair, I have also looked more at Rust than Go, but that's because it made a better first impression on me.

A Rust frontend for GCC

Posted Dec 11, 2013 8:01 UTC (Wed) by bgmarete (guest, #47484) [Link]

I hoped (as you probably guessed) to elicit informative replies such as yours and those of below :)

I have been putting off looking at Rust, mostly because it would have been a distraction from Go which has been a lot of fun to learn and use. Like C, it is a very small language which easily fits in the head, its always-improving performance is more than acceptable (and significantly better than Python's) and it supports modern facilities that are useful and which enhance safety. All this has meant that it has replaced Python and C++ where I am concerned, and my real work (business) has come to rely on it a great deal. So I am very anxious to see it advance in great leaps and bounds.

But your comment and Cyberax's below mean that I will be taking a serious look at Rust soon.