[davidw]

> I don't think it's like that. I think they're just developing it through usage.

What's shipping with it?

I have a bit of the same impression that the other poster has, that it's always in development without something stable. I hope that gets dispelled sooner or later, because, for better or worse, fuzzy marketing type things like that matter.

[mbrubeck]

Your impression is completely accurate; the language is in development and is not ready to use yet. It shouldn't be used in any shipping products. There's nothing to "dispel" here until the 1.0 syntax is is finalized; fortunately that should happen in months rather than years.

From a pure marketing perspective, sure, maybe it would be better to finish more of the design and implementation before talking about it publicly. But Mozilla's pretty committed to working in the open, and that has its own benefits. For example, significant parts of the Rust implementation were created by contributors who were not paid Mozilla staff, including a Google employee (in her spare time).

(Disclosure: I'm a Mozilla employee but not part of the Rust team; I've contributed a little bit to the Rust compiler in my free time.)

[davidw]

Fair enough. Like I said, it was just an impression; a vague feeling, so I'll be curious to see what they come up with when it comes out.

[asdfs]

The compiler is written in Rust, as is Mozilla's experimental browser engine called Servo.