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Re:Announcing Rust 1.7 by benjismith on Thursday March 03, 2016 @06:58PM (#11221009)
Nice! I haven't used rust yet, but I'm really excited about it. I think Mozilla Research is doing some of the most groundbreaking work in CS lately.

The best part about rust is seeing the equally incredible work being done by the Servo team. To get a glimpse into some of their best work, here's a video where they talk about using the GPU to get better performance rendering a DOM than most native GUI toolkits can achieve on a sophisticated layout:

https://air.mozilla.org/bay-area-rust-meetup-february-2016/#...

Re:Announcing Rust 1.7 by nightpool on Thursday March 03, 2016 @08:55PM (#11221534)
Yes, absolutely, if you haven't seen the WebRender video already you need to watch it. I haven't been this excited about a new technology in a while.