[rust-dev] First impressions of Rust

2014-10-08 Thread Nathan Vegdahl
Hello Rust devs! I've been following Rust off-and-on for about a year, but in the last month I actually started trying to do some development in it. I haven't done a huge amount with Rust yet, but I'm hoping some first impressions from a newbie like myself might be useful. I come from a C++ and

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

Re: [rust-dev] First impressions of Rust

2014-10-10 Thread Nathan Vegdahl
>> Oh my, I'm allowed to start an RFC? > > Certainly! RFC does stand for "request for comments" after all. Looks like someone beat me to it! :-) https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/385 I'll definitely stop by the IRC channel(s) when I get a chance. I'm also hoping to attend the next Seattle R

Re: [rust-dev] First impressions of Rust

2014-10-11 Thread Nathan Vegdahl
Thanks for the explanation and link! That's exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. :-) I'll definitely keep my eye out for the RFC. --Nathan On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Alex Crichton wrote: >>> The syntax was pioneered before the RFC process was in effect, so it >>> may not have an