Re:Announcing the new Rust package manager, Cargo
by jnbiche on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @10:20AM
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>Click on setup.exe, wait for the installer to finish, click on "Rust command prompt"
You're wanting things that don't even exist in Linux land. We still have a multiple stage build process that can take hours (depending on your available processing power). If any pre-built Linux binaries are available from a trusted source, I couldn't find them.
The bottom line is, if you're horribly offended by Rust's lack of Windows support, and want to use the language, then pitch in and lend a hand. That's what people who want more embedded ("bare metal") support are doing (myself included, although I haven't yet open sourced my improvements).
After some initial stumbling blocks because of the pointer semantics, I've started using Rust regularly and it's becoming a very nice language. And it's the only new non-research language right now that actually has fast, deterministic performance ideal for real-time applications and games (Nimrod is close for soft real-time).
You're wanting things that don't even exist in Linux land. We still have a multiple stage build process that can take hours (depending on your available processing power). If any pre-built Linux binaries are available from a trusted source, I couldn't find them.
The bottom line is, if you're horribly offended by Rust's lack of Windows support, and want to use the language, then pitch in and lend a hand. That's what people who want more embedded ("bare metal") support are doing (myself included, although I haven't yet open sourced my improvements).
After some initial stumbling blocks because of the pointer semantics, I've started using Rust regularly and it's becoming a very nice language. And it's the only new non-research language right now that actually has fast, deterministic performance ideal for real-time applications and games (Nimrod is close for soft real-time).