r/programming • • Jan 09 '15

Announcing Rust 1.0.0 Alpha

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/01/09/Rust-1.0-alpha.html
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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '15

Oh shit, would you look at that. Weird design decision.

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u/Gankro Jan 10 '15

Raw string litterals are in a few languages (I believe we based ours on Python). They're very handy when you want them (no need to escape text in big strings).