I read the first half of their tutorial last night. I looks that they have attacked one of the weak points of C++ in a componentized world -- making sure that pointers don't outlive the object they are pointing to, even when passed to unknown (at compile time) functions and marshaled to other processes. The smart pointers that Mozilla uses help, but there is no static checking, and crashes and memory leaks are a big problem in development.
It will be interesting when Rust moves out into the wider world, if it does.
--Barry
On Apr 3, 2013, at 4:18 PM,
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> Well, the reason I mentioned it wasn't it was yet another "Let's fix C++ by
> harvesting ideas from the computer science literature." effort, e.g. D, but
> that it 1) is from Mozilla (Eich) and aims to be a platform for a next
> generation browser, and even one that runs on mobile devices, and 2) it
> isn't JavaScript.
>
> It's not just about performance, it's about safety and correctness.
>
> Marcus
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