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| author | B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com> | 2016-11-14 14:18:07 -0500 |
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| committer | Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org> | 2016-11-15 21:41:38 +0700 |
| commit | 990f003575024bb024588c76c28f5c50c5e1aabb (patch) | |
| tree | 05137cf1db642e5d5e8a71f08cb86d949dd093ad /development/rust | |
| parent | f2ff12b72cefe19a997da2ec932617947a52c72a (diff) | |
development/rust: Fix README.
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| -rw-r--r-- | development/rust/README | 29 |
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diff --git a/development/rust/README b/development/rust/README index a5e2d1508315e..ff69812bdf6c3 100644 --- a/development/rust/README +++ b/development/rust/README @@ -1,25 +1,34 @@ Rust Rust is a curly-brace, block-structured expression language. -It visually resembles the C language family, but differs significantly in syntactic and -semantic details. -Its design is oriented toward concerns of "programming in the large", that is, of creating -and maintaining boundaries - both abstract and operational - that preserve large-system -integrity, availability and concurrency. -It supports a mixture of imperative procedural, concurrent actor, object-oriented and pure -functional styles. Rust also supports generic programming and metaprogramming, in both static -and dynamic styles. +It visually resembles the C language family, but differs significantly +in syntactic and semantic details. -Cargo - the Rust package manager - is included into this build. +Its design is oriented toward concerns of "programming in the large", that +is, of creating and maintaining boundaries - both abstract and operational +- that preserve large-system integrity, availability and concurrency. -A short summary of features +It supports a mixture of imperative procedural, concurrent actor, +object-oriented and pure functional styles. Rust also supports generic +programming and metaprogramming, in both static and dynamic styles. + +Cargo - the Rust package manager - is included in this build. + +A short summary of features: Type system: static, nominal, linear, algebraic, locally inferred + Memory safety: no null or dangling pointers, no buffer overflows + Concurrency: lightweight tasks with message passing, no shared memory + Generics: type parameterization with type classes + Exception handling: unrecoverable unwinding with task isolation + Memory model: optional task-local GC, safe pointer types with region analysis + Compilation model: ahead-of-time, C/C++ compatible + License: dual MIT / Apache 2 |