Zig's New Relationship with LLVM

Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by oshea64bit on Monday September 28, 2020 @09:38AM (#24616463)

Maybe this is an ignorant question, but how exactly is Rust influenced by web dev? I don't see how the aspects that make Rust popular (ownership, lifetimes, strong type system etc.) contribute much to web dev in particular. Languages used for the web like JS, Python, Ruby seem popular precisely because they abstract lower-level details.

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Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by swsieber on Monday September 28, 2020 @09:45AM (#24616518)

There's definitely influence from the package manager side. There's probably also the influence on the push for a strong WASM story.

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Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by mjtlittle on Monday September 28, 2020 @10:30AM (#24616970)

Rust is heavily funded and maintained by Mozilla for use in Firefox's engine, Servo

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Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by Ar-Curunir on Monday September 28, 2020 @10:48AM (#24617189)

Working on a browser is not “web dev”, at least wrt how “web dev” is defined by many parts of the software community.

(Web dev is a totally cool and difficult engineering thing to do, it’s just disjoint from browser dev)

Anyway, Rust design is no longer influenced in any significant way by Servo, and most Rust contributors are not Mozillians

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Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by exikyut on Monday September 28, 2020 @01:30PM (#24619122)

AFAIK no it isn't anymore, it was one of the biggest teams jettisoned by Mozilla manglement in the layoffs a few weeks ago

(So, everyone promptly hyperfocused on how to bootstrap the Rust Foundation in a hurry)

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