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Re:Announcing Rust 1.0 Alpha by listic on Friday January 09, 2015 @06:09PM (#8865074)
> the language slowly evolved and was molded to fit as best as possible the problem they were trying to solve.

Which is...? Wikipedia says [1]

> "to be a good language for the creation of large client and server programs that run over the Internet"

and that looks too vague to me.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_%28programming_language%29...

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Re:Announcing Rust 1.0 Alpha by steveklabnik on Friday January 09, 2015 @07:14PM (#8865277)
Memory safety without garbage collection.
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Re:Announcing Rust 1.0 Alpha by bjz_ on Friday January 09, 2015 @08:00PM (#8865398)
Agreed. I think that description should be updated.
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