Rust 0.3 发布了,Rust 是 Mozilla 目前正在开发一个新的编程语言,由web语言的领军人物Brendan Eich(js之父),Dave Herman以及Mozilla公司的Graydon Hoare 合力开发。
创建这个新语言的目的是为了解决一个很顽疾的问题:软件的演进速度大大低于硬件的演进,软件在语言级别上无法真正利用多核计算带来的性能提升。Rust是针对多核体系提出的语言,并且吸收一些其他动态语言的重要特性,比如不需要管理内存,比如不会出现Null指针等等。
* ~1900 changes, numerous bugfixes * New coding conveniences * Integer-literal suffix inference * Per-item control over warnings, errors * #[cfg(windows)] and #[cfg(unix)] attributes * Documentation comments * More compact closure syntax * 'do' expressions for treating higher-order functions as control structures * *-patterns (wildcard extended to all constructor fields) * Semantic cleanup * Name resolution pass and exhaustiveness checker rewritten * Region pointers and borrow checking supersede alias analysis * Init-ness checking is now provided by a region-based liveness pass instead of the typestate pass; same for last-use analysis * Extensive work on region pointers * Experimental new language features * Slices and fixed-size, interior-allocated vectors * #!-comments for lang versioning, shell execution * Destructors and iface implementation for classes; type-parameterized classes and class methods * 'const' type kind for types that can be used to implement shared-memory concurrency patterns * Type reflection * Removal of various obsolete features * Keywords: 'be', 'prove', 'syntax', 'note', 'mutable', 'bind', 'crust', 'native' (now 'extern'), 'cont' (now 'again') * Constructs: do-while loops ('do' repurposed), fn binding, resources (replaced by destructors) * Compiler reorganization * Syntax-layer of compiler split into separate crate * Clang (from LLVM project) integrated into build * Typechecker split into sub-modules * New library code * New time functions * Extension methods for many built-in types * Arc: atomic-refcount read-only / exclusive-use shared cells * Par: parallel map and search routines * Extensive work on libuv interface * Much vector code moved to libraries * Syntax extensions: #line, #col, #file, #mod, #stringify, #include, #include_str, #include_bin * Tool improvements * Cargo automatically resolves dependencies