On 2017-12-10 06:28 AM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
So I know precious little about programming languages. I looked up 'Rust programming language'.
Wikipedia (which can often be useful if not always totally accurate) listed it as:
" . . . a systems programming language sponsored by Mozilla Research, which describes it as a "safe, concurrent, practical language," supporting functional and imperative-procedural paradigms. Rust is syntactically similar to C++, but its designers intend it to provide better memory safety while maintaining performance."
OK - - - sponsored by Mozilla (AIUI that sort means that its their baby) and its to '. . . provide better memory safety . . ." . Well given how Mozilla products work for me - - - they don't really know anything about how to use memory. The only way I can keep using FF is to kill it every couple three days and then restart it. Somehow that isn't my idea of memory usage done well so if that's Rust - - - well then that's a total non-starter for me!
I think you'll be surprised at how well the latest Firefox 57 performs. It's their first release featuring core browser components written in Rust. Fast and stable for me. Give it a try and see if your characterization above still holds. Cheers, Jamon