[rust-dev] Rust and object capabilities?

2014-07-03 Thread Rob Meijer
I've been trying to read up on Rust a little bit, and things look really amazing. Given the focus on 'safety' and the strong link between safety and integrity related issues, I was intrigued by the following question: how far would Rust be removed from possibly becoming an object capability

Re: [rust-dev] Rust and object capabilities?

2014-07-03 Thread Patrick Walton
On 7/2/14 11:09 PM, Rob Meijer wrote: I've been trying to read up on Rust a little bit, and things look really amazing. Given the focus on 'safety' and the strong link between safety and integrity related issues, I was intrigued by the following question: how far would Rust be removed from

Re: [rust-dev] Rust and object capabilities?

2014-07-03 Thread David Renshaw
Perhaps relevant: Cap'n Proto's RPC protocol http://kentonv.github.io/capnproto/rpc.html aims to be a cross-language distributed-object-capability system, and I have been working on a Rust implementation https://github.com/dwrensha/capnproto-rust. On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 2:09 AM, Rob Meijer