Firefox will stop using C ++ to use Rust, Mozilla's new language

I read since ExtremeTech this news 🙂

It happens that for about 5 years Rust (programming language invented by Mozilla) has been in development. And that's it Mozilla Labs has released the alpha 1 compiler of it.

The objective of all this is simple, gradually replacing code C++ by Rust, since the latter apparently optimizes memory consumption.

I leave you some details of Rust:

• Rust it is a compiler.
• Object-oriented programming.
• The compiler works on Windows, Linux, and Mac.
• It is made on existing ideas, that is ... it uses programming logic and syntax from other languages, here you can see an example of this:

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

Rust has been influenced by languages ​​like Limbo y Newsqueak, but claim that they have not been influenced by language Go of Google.

I leave the website: Rust Web Site

As well as if you are more interested in this topic, you can read more details about this version 0.1: Rust 0.1 Release Notes

The fruits of this we will not see right now, I think it will be several years before we see a slightly notable better of which, it is responsibility (thanks to) Rust. I hope this does not fill the browser with bugs hahaha.

regards

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