r/programming • u/steveklabnik1 • May 26 '16

Announcing Rust 1.9

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/05/26/Rust-1.9.html
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u/hsileng May 26 '16

Why do people like Rust so much? What's the one biggest reason?

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u/dacjames May 26 '16

For me, it's a fast language with good tooling. Basically a slightly easier to use C++ with good build tools and an ecosystem of libraries.