[rust-dev] The Rust compiler 0.1 is unleashed

Today Mozilla and the Rust community are releasing version 0.1 of the Rust compiler and associated tools. Rust is a strongly-typed systems programming language with a focus on memory safety and concurrency. This is the initial release of the compiler after a multi-year development cycle focusing on self-hosting, implementation of major features, and solidifying the syntax. Version 0.1 should be considered an alpha release, suitable for early adopters and language enthusiasts. It's nifty, but it will still eat your laundry. Please file bugs at http://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues. This release is available as both a tarball and a windows installer: * http://dl.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-0.1.tar.gz http://dl.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-0.1.tar.gz.asc SHA256: a1a234592168443b3bd6dce03378ee410393b07f8075c6a56e339638fdda8263 * http://dl.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-0.1-install.exe http://dl.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-0.1-install.exe.asc SHA256: d66ab7ab30832816460bdec29909be267fb2e4f2baf5add4d9449b8166839ca2 Thanks to everybody who has contributed[1]. Regards, The Rust Team Version 0.1 (January 2012) --------------------------- * Most language features work, including: * Unique pointers, unique closures, move semantics * Interface-constrained generics * Static interface dispatch * Stack growth * Multithread task scheduling * Typestate predicates * Failure unwinding, destructors * Pattern matching and destructuring assignment * Lightweight block-lambda syntax * Preliminary macro-by-example * Compiler works with the following configurations: * Linux: x86 and x86_64 hosts and targets * MacOS: x86 and x86_64 hosts and targets * Windows: x86 hosts and targets * Cross compilation / multi-target configuration supported. * Preliminary API-documentation and package-management tools included. Known issues: * Documentation is incomplete. * Performance is below intended target. * Standard library APIs are subject to extensive change, reorganization. * Language-level versioning is not yet operational - future code will break unexpectedly. [1] Contributors to Rust 0.1: Adam Bozanich Andreas Gal Austin Seipp Ben Striegel Benjamin Jackman Brendan Eich Brian Anderson Chris Double Dave Herman David Rajchenbach-Teller Elly Fong-Jones Eric Holk Erick Tryzelaar Erik Rose Grahame Bowland Graham Fawcett Graydon Hoare Haitao Li Jason Orendorff Jeff Balogh Jeff Muizelaar Jeffrey Yasskin Jesse Ruderman Josh Matthews Joshua Wise Jyun-Yan You Kelly Wilson Kevin Atkinson Kevin Cantu Lennart Kudling Lindsey Kuper Marijn Haverbeke Matt Brubeck Michael Bebenita Michael Sullivan Niko Matsakis Or Brostovski Patrick Walton Paul Stansifer Peter Hull Ralph Giles Rafael Ávila de Espíndola Reuben Morais Rob Arnold Roland Tanglao Roy Frostig Sean Stangl Stefan Plantikow Tim Chevalier Tycho Sci Wade Mealing