[jdf]

> The only thing I can think of that Rust has that Go doesn't is, like, SIMD, and I'm sure your comment wasn't just referring to SIMD.

Just to clarify, are you referring to Rust using SIMD by way of LLVM, or by way of being able to use SIMD primitives / intrinsics directly in Rust code?

The former works much better than I had anticipated. I've been surprised by the extent that my iterator code ends up vectorized without me doing much work.

The latter does not give me warm Rust feelings today. There's a SIMD crate, but it doesn't look maintained and only works with the nightly compiler releases. I didn't think there was any stable way to do inline assembly, so I think linking C is my best bet here?

[Manishearth]

> The latter does not give me warm Rust feelings today. There's a SIMD crate, but it doesn't look maintained and only works with the nightly compiler releases. I didn't think there was any stable way to do inline assembly, so I think linking C is my best bet here?

Yeah, the person formerly working on simd is no longer able to contribute to random open source projects. It's still something the Rust team wants to make stable, just not right now. SIMD is a bit complicated because you need to address target support in a straightforward way.