Re:The Wyvern Programming Language
by chrismorgan on Friday August 08, 2014 @11:16PM
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Oh yes. It selected it as it’s gaining popularity and looks to me likely to reach a critical mass for mainstream usage.
There have been plenty of great languages in which you can express things marvellously well, but for the most part they remain obscure. Although Rust is not the most powerful language around for some of the things I want to do, it’s sufficiently powerful and backing what already looks to be a winner means that the ideas will actually get used.
I think you accidentally a word.
I'm also very interested in Rust. Still has a lot of rough edges, but it's the first new language I've seen in a long term that really feels ambitious. Ambitious as in raising the state of the art (memory-safety without GC is a big deal); ambitious as in aiming at big scary problems. The fact that your language can express quicksort or Fibonacci nicely isn't that interesting. The fact that you're planning to build a portable, performant, secure web browser in it tells me you're serious.