[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.