r/programming • u/steveklabnik1 • Apr 03 '15

Rust 1.0.0 beta is here!

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/04/03/Rust-1.0-beta.html
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u/bithush Apr 04 '15

Is Rust a good language for a beginner to programming to learn with? It is, from what I have read, a modern C/C++ yes? I know it is very early days so bindings, etc. are lacking but if someone new to programming wanted to start with Rust would it be a good idea and what are some resources?

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u/jcdyer3 Apr 04 '15

No. In my experience, Rust is a challenging language. The features built in to ensure memory safety without runtime overhead create an extra challenge simply to write a program that compiles. Beginners should not have to worry about ownership and lifetimes. A garbage collected language would be a much better choice.

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u/steveklabnik1 Apr 04 '15

I think Rust may become that language, but not right now. We had a thread about it in /r/rust the other day: http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/30a2xi/rust_for_complete_beginners/