Re: [rust-dev] Rust Research Project Query

2014-10-09 Thread Victor Barua
I'm interested in a project from a programming languages perspective. It's an area I've recently gotten into and it would also align with the research focus of my supervisor. I think it would be interesting to work on some static analysis tooling. Sean mentioned a test coverage tool earlier in the

Re: [rust-dev] Rust Research Project Query

2014-10-09 Thread Tuncer Ayaz
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Victor Barua wrote: I'm interested in a project from a programming languages perspective. It's an area I've recently gotten into and it would also align with the research focus of my supervisor. I think it would be interesting to work on some static analysis

Re: [rust-dev] Rust Research Project Query

2014-10-09 Thread Josh Matthews
Finishing the DXR (https://wiki.mozilla.org/DXR) support for Rust that Nick Cameron started would be extremely valuable and intersect with your static analysis interests. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=956768 is our tracking metabug for the DXR-side work that is still required;

[rust-dev] Rust 0.12.0 released

2014-10-09 Thread Brian Anderson
The Rust community is pleased to announce version 0.12.0 of the Rust compiler and tools. Rust is a systems programming language with a focus on safety, performance and concurrency. This release features an abundance of new and improved documentation, including The Rust Guide, which replaces the

Re: [rust-dev] First impressions of Rust

2014-10-09 Thread Nathan Vegdahl
Hi Alex, thanks for the quick response! Feel free to open a bug on the issue tracker (https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues) or even open an RFC on it! Due to it being a language change, you should register the issue in the RFC repo instead of the rust repo. Oh my, I'm allowed to start an

Re: [rust-dev] First impressions of Rust

2014-10-09 Thread Alex Crichton
Feel free to open a bug on the issue tracker (https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues) or even open an RFC on it! Due to it being a language change, you should register the issue in the RFC repo instead of the rust repo. Oh my, I'm allowed to start an RFC? I don't feel confident in