{"id":10642,"date":"2015-02-01T18:26:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T23:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10642"},"modified":"2015-02-01T18:26:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T23:26:57","slug":"some-notes-on-rust-the-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/01\/some-notes-on-rust-the-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Notes on Rust, the Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lambda-the-ultimate.org\/node\/5113\">John Nagle<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/lambda-the-ultimate.org\/node\/5113\"><p>Despite the claims in the Rust pre-alpha announcement of language definition stability, the language changes enough every week or so to break existing programs. This is a classic Mozilla problem; that organization has a track record of deprecating old features in Firefox before the replacement new feature works properly.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Rust is going to be a very important language, because it solves the three big problems of C\/C++ that causes crashes and buffer overflows. The three big problems in C\/C++ memory management are &ldquo;How big is it?&rdquo;, &ldquo;Who owns and deletes it?&rdquo;, and &ldquo;Who locks it?&rdquo;. C\/C++ deals with none of those problems effectively. Rust deals with all of them, without introducing garbage collection or extensive run-time processing. This is a significant advance.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Nagle: Despite the claims in the Rust pre-alpha announcement of language definition stability, the language changes enough every week or so to break existing programs. This is a classic Mozilla problem; that organization has a track record of deprecating old features in Firefox before the replacement new feature works properly.[&#8230;]Rust is going to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[46,410,71,408],"class_list":["post-10642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-languagedesign","tag-mozilla","tag-programming","tag-rust-lang"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10643,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10642\/revisions\/10643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}