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pjmlp on Jan 15, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Periodic Table of Rust Types

> Thus, we're still stuck with C++, and we're still suffering for it, having nightmarish bugs and myriads of security holes and whatnot.

There have been alternatives in the form of Ada, Modula-3 and Oberon, Cyclon and a few others.

Except for Ada, they were left in the research labs.

Looking to the history of systems programming languages, the only ones that have become mainstream have an OS vendor to thank for.

So which OS vendor will push for a C++ alternative?

robin_reala on Jan 15, 2014 [–]

Mozilla is an OS vendor.

pjmlp on Jan 15, 2014 | [–]

So when are we expected to be able to write FirefoxOS Apps in Rust?

robin_reala on Jan 16, 2014 | | [–]

Rust has the beginnings of emscripten targeting[1], so in the near future?

[1] https://github.com/Yoric/Mozilla-Student-Projects/issues/33

pjmlp on Jan 16, 2014 | | [–]

My idea was for them to run 100% at native speed.

For running inside the browser I rather stay with JavaScript and friends.

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