Re:The cost of forsaking C
by Manishearth on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @06:05AM
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As for alternate implementations, https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc .
As for specification, https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1643 is what's currently happening, i.e. specifying exactly how unsafe code behaves (this is more important than specifying the rest). But the rest will come.
As for the industry, https://www.rust-lang.org/friends.html
> though I suspect multiple implementations will come from elsewhere since we already have a couple partial ones)
>Rust already has lots of folks from other industries trying to use it
I'm not up to date. Input would be appreciated here.