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That is correct. "Shipping Rust code in Firefox" is what it's about. Though really "Shipping Rust in Firefox" means that too, it's just a bit ambiguous.
I would expect the phrase "shipping Rust" to mean that they include the language environment, so that I can write code in Rust with Mozilla.
Am I'm reading either the headline or the announcement wrong? As I read it, they are not shipping Rust but a component written in Rust. > For this reason, Ralph Giles and Matthew Gregan built Mozilla’s first Rust > media parser. And I’m happy to report that their code will be the first > Rust component shipping in Firefox.
Sort of offtopic, but.. since Manish has already clarified the intent below... I am just curious - would you have drawn a similar conclusion from the headline if the language in question was not Rust, but a more popular/stable one, like say JavaScript/C? "Shipping C in Firefox"? (asking purely from a linguistic point of view)
Am I'm reading either the headline or the announcement wrong? As I read it, they are not shipping Rust but a component written in Rust. > For this reason, Ralph Giles and Matthew Gregan built Mozilla’s first Rust > media parser. And I’m happy to report that their code will be the first > Rust component shipping in Firefox.
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I would expect the phrase "shipping Rust" to mean that they include the language environment, so that I can write code in Rust with Mozilla.
That doesn't make sense. It is a statically compiled systems-oriented language, not a web-oriented language.
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I would expect the phrase "shipping Rust" to mean that they include the language environment, so that I can write code in Rust with Mozilla.
That doesn't make sense. It is a statically compiled systems-oriented language, not a web-oriented language.
This is great news for the language as it's going to help make sure a wider array of architectures are supported.
Awesome work!
I followed Rust at the beginning and I was pleased with the design goals of the language. However, I wasn't thrilled with the pre-1.0 documentation, and even after 1.0 there were breaking changes to the language.
Hopefully this is a sign of Rust's maturity. I'll have to look at it again:>)
EDIT: s/from/at/
If it becomes something dependable, infrastructure-wise, like Java, this might mark the beginning of a more serious uptake.