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Re:Why Rust is not a mature programming language by omginternets on Saturday September 19, 2020 @11:36AM (#24528128)
What makes you say it’s vaporware? Doesn’t it like...exist?
Re:Why Rust is not a mature programming language by jjpe on Saturday September 19, 2020 @11:43AM (#24528189)
Pretty much every touted feature is WIP, definitely all the important ones. So yeah no that's vaporware.
Re:Why Rust is not a mature programming language by kortex on Saturday September 19, 2020 @12:39PM (#24528647)
Does the Doom demo actually work? That'd be enough for me to call it "not vaporware" by a longshot.
Re:Why Rust is not a mature programming language by gus_massa on Saturday September 19, 2020 @01:13PM (#24528914)
IIUC they use chocolate-doom that has approximately 600 .c files, and replace one of them with a .v file. I don't understand what they mean when they say

> DOOM translated from C to V. Builds in 0.7 seconds (x25 speed-up).

Re:Why Rust is not a mature programming language by edoceo on Saturday September 19, 2020 @12:57PM (#24528786)
The magic porting of C-Doom to V-Doom is still WIP
Re:Why Rust is not a mature programming language by omginternets on Saturday September 19, 2020 @12:01PM (#24528355)
Aha, I took their marketing at face value. I never learn... :(
Re:Why Rust is not a mature programming language by Jtsummers on Saturday September 19, 2020 @11:44AM (#24528199)
Check out some of the discussions from its announcement and early release from last year. There were a lot of statements that were (or at least seemed) false, and several delays in releasing source code (which increased people's conviction that it wasn't entirely legit).