Is this for real? If so how is Rust not a complete joke?pic.twitter.com/Zz52Hg6R9q
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It really started out as a much different language. It didn't start out trying to fill the niche of a memory safe low-level language. It was always focused on safety, but not really with the goal of avoiding performance costs, loss of control over memory layout / execution, etc.
To some extent, Mozilla changed the direction of the language, but to a large extent it was community pressure that fundamentally reshaped it in the year or two leading up to 1.0. It wasn't always going to be something fairly unique (i.e. a memory safe low level language).
You said "It wasn't always going to be something fairly unique (i.e. a memory safe low level language)" Funny because that's pretty much exactly how I heard it described back at the Mozilla summit where I first learned of it in 2010, as a safe systems level language.
Except 'system language' was used more like how Go was using it. Rust didn't even have borrowed pointers early on (with no plan for them). It had pervasive automatic reference counting + cycle collection with an ongoing migration to GC.
There was no plan to remove segmented stacks, M:N threading, etc. The plan was to move to using tracing GC, and there was at least one tracing garbage collector implemented. It was meant to be a lot more like Erlang / Go and a lot less like C and C++ than it ended up later on.
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