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Rust's 2018 roadmap

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Re: Rust's 2018 roadmap

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Post by pknopf »

Go is making a large push to wasm as well. There is a branch/fork with a near complete wasm Go compiler.

I'm interested in seeing how Rust and Go will compare in the future of the web.

Who will win? ;)

Re: Rust's 2018 roadmap

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Post by kibwen »

the_mitsuhiko wrote: post #3
steveklabnik wrote: post #2

You may have noticed a subtle change: what was previously called “epochs” is now “editions.” Lots of great stuff coming this year! As always, happy to answer any questions.

What happened to "era"?!

The bikeshed works in mysterious ways. :P

Re: Rust's 2018 roadmap

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Post by woah »

pknopf wrote: post #4

Go is making a large push to wasm as well. There is a branch/fork with a near complete wasm Go compiler. I'm interested in seeing how Rust and Go will compare in the future of the web. Who will win? ;)

Do they ship a GC with every webpage then or am I misunderstanding how it works?

Re: Rust's 2018 roadmap

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Post by steveklabnik »

the_mitsuhiko wrote: post #3
steveklabnik wrote: post #2

You may have noticed a subtle change: what was previously called “epochs” is now “editions.” Lots of great stuff coming this year! As always, happy to answer any questions.

What happened to "era"?!

In the end, all these words are similar enough that we had to make a call.

We expect most people to say "Rust 2018" and not use any of these terms; we still need one to be the key in Cargo.toml and the flag to the compiler, so we couldn't just use nothing.

Re: Rust's 2018 roadmap

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Post by the_mitsuhiko »

woah wrote: post #6
pknopf wrote: post #4

Go is making a large push to wasm as well. There is a branch/fork with a near complete wasm Go compiler. I'm interested in seeing how Rust and Go will compare in the future of the web. Who will win? ;)

Do they ship a GC with every webpage then or am I misunderstanding how it works?

For now I think every wasm go module will have its own GC.

Re: Rust's 2018 roadmap

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Post by kibwen »

pknopf wrote: post #4

Go is making a large push to wasm as well. There is a branch/fork with a near complete wasm Go compiler. I'm interested in seeing how Rust and Go will compare in the future of the web. Who will win? ;)

I'm not just being diplomatic when I say that hopefully we can avoid the Rust vs. Go debate here. :P WASM is a bid to help future-proof the relevancy of the web in the face of mobile app stores, and seeing many languages embrace it is a good thing, no matter what those languages are. Heck, since WASM is sandboxed anyway it doesn't even matter if you choose C or C++ over Go or Rust, since memory unsafety shouldn't be exploitable from WASM anyway.
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