Meanwhile the servo project is dogfooding our work, as we are ourselves when writing the compiler. We will proceed through a sequence of alpha and beta releases and then branch off a stable version, which we'll support at least as long as we're using it in production, possibly longer. Our current status is that we released a bootstrap compiler in 2010, bootstrapped out of that into a self-hosted compiler last year, and just finished our third (0.3) alpha release of that second compiler. Mozilla is funding Rust development because of that. Mozilla took an interest and set up a team to work on this language as a component of longer-term project to rebuild their browser stack around safer, more concurrent, easier technologies than C++. I've been doing so for a long time and finally decided to show one such prototype I'd been working on in my spare time to my manager at the time. Naturally this sort of thing leads a person to sketch their own hobby projects. GH: I'm a language engineer by trade and usually this means I'm working on compilers or tools for other languages I didn't have any part in designing.
Please tell us a little bit about its inception and the road to the current status. InfoQ: I understand that you started working on Rust back in 2006. InfoQ has talked to Hoare to find out more about Rust from an insider. Mozilla has recently released a new alpha version of Rust and there is a roadmap with features to be implemented in the near future. Polymorphism, combining Java-like interfaces and Haskell-like type classes.Lightweight tasks can run in parallel without sharing any memory Pattern matching and algebraic data types (enums).
While Rust’s syntax strongly resembles C, there are major differences, some of its most interesting features being: Rust is a systems language for writing high performance applications that are usually written in C or C++ but it was developed to prevent some of the problems related to invalid memory accesses that generate segmentation faults.
Mozilla became interested in this new language, creating a team to continue its development and started using it for the experimental Servo Parallel Browser Project. Graydon Hoare, a "language engineer by trade" as he calls himself, started working on a new programming language called Rust in 2006. This post contains an interview with Graydon Hoare, Rust’s creator. Rust is a systems programming language developed by Mozilla and targeted at high performance applications.
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