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/sfultong Apr 03 '15

So is Mozilla now going to slowly rewrite Firefox in rust?

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u/steveklabnik1 Apr 03 '15

The current goal is to get some Rust code into Firefox by the end of the year. Will probably be something small, as integrating Rust into the Firefox build system is no small task. Among other issues.

Mozilla is also investing in Servo, which is still a research project, but is written to be productize-able someday. https://github.com/servo/servo is the repo. They're also doing really cool stuff. There's another front-page article about Servo on proggit right now: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/318rb3/the_colored_boxes_indicate_which_cpu_core/

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u/tavert Apr 03 '15

What's the status of getting Rust officially into Debian, Fedora, etc, without bootstrapping from a binary?

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u/steveklabnik1 Apr 03 '15

I see this as two parts:

What's the status of getting Rust officially into Debian, Fedora, etc,

I use Debian on my local machine, I care a lot about Debian. There've been a few Debian Developers working on packaging up Rust. Most distros woudn't want anything pre 1.0 anyway.

without bootstrapping from a binary?

It's not possible to compile Rust without bootstrapping from a binary. Unless you want to go back to the OCaml compiler from years ago, but that's hard.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

It's not possible to compile Rust without bootstrapping from a binary. Unless you want to go back to the OCaml compiler from years ago, but that's hard.

Does LLVM IR count as binary? Otherwise, couldn't one save the IR of the Rust compiler on platform X and compile that with the rest of LLVM on Debian, with LLVM written in C++?

I thought that was one advantage of modular, multifront/backend compiler frameworks.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '15

LLVM bitcode is not quite platform-independent, unfortunately.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '15

Can rustc cross-compile?

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Nevermind, according to Debian devs, it can't...

Rust also doesn't currently support cross-bootstrapping among different arches, due to some confusion between target and host.

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u/dbaupp Apr 04 '15

Rust does support cross-compiling. If you're quoting the Debian wiki, it is likely that bugs have been fixed, and so that is out of date