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A bit more about the language itself: Rust is a compiled, statically-typed, object-oriented programming language (and objects are immutable by default). The compiler is supported on Windows, Linux, and Mac. Feature-wise, Rust intentionally avoids any novel ideas, and instead builds upon existing, known features that are present in other languages. Syntax-wise, Rust uses curly braces {} like C, C++, or JavaScript, but as you can see in the code block below, the syntax is actually quite funky.

    use std;
    fn main(args: [str]) {
         std::io::println("hello world from '" + args[0] + "'!");
    }

Madman wrote:

Why everyone insists on developing their own stupid language (tm)?

There should be like 5 languages in total. C++, Pyhon, Javascript, SQL, HTML. That's it. People would at least learn them properly, the libraries for those few languages would be widely used/tested/developed, and it would be better for everyone.

But no, everyone thinks that they can invent some stupid language that will be idiot-proof, which never happens. And in the end, there are a lot of half baked languages with half baked libraries and half baked professionals in each of them.

thegleek wrote:

Myself, I've gone through life without EVER coding 1 single line of Python. I consider Python and Ruby the new-age hipster languages.

just brew it! wrote:

I learned Python mainly because the guy I work for is a huge fan of the language, and he decided that all of our testing tools would be written in it. I'm still more of a C/C++ guy at heart, but Python is good.

thegleek wrote:

Myself, I've gone through life without EVER coding 1 single line of Python. I consider Python and Ruby the new-age hipster languages.

Buub wrote:

Python (and Ruby [and even PHP]) is the anti-perl. Python , Ruby, and PHP are great for really simple scripts, say only a few lines long, that simply parse lines in a file. Anything more than that and it gets so unreadable relative to Perl that it has to be asked: why AREN'T you using Perl, and sticking to a far inferior tool?
... The fact is, Perl is a vastly superior scripting language than Python and Ruby, which is why Perl is so popular.

just brew it! wrote:

@titan -

My take: Perl is only popular because it was the first widely used scripting language with the sort of expressive power it has. In other words, inertia. Kind of like how FORTRAN and COBOL still refuse to die.