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I am hoping Servo is going to increase the use of Rust. There aren't many resources for it at the moment even though it is at version 0.9. I would think that a language nearing "1.0" would have a wider community by now. Here's hoping!

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For such a young and not yet completely stable language, I think there's actually quite a lot of active projects, especially pertaining to gamedev. Here are some:

http://rust-ci.org/projects/

I think this has a lot to do with the complete instability of the rust API, and I think a lot of others (myself included), are waiting for the 1.0 release before actually trying to build something in the language. Having software built in rust should be great for the community though, I'm exited about it.

> There aren't many resources for it at the moment even though it is at version 0.9. I would think that a language nearing "1.0"

FWIW the language is only nearning 1.0 in that 0.9 > 0.8. 0.9 is by no means the final pre-1.0 release.

Ah, good point!

And this is Mozilla. They are used to putting out releases often. Firefox Nightly is at version 30.0 :)

This conversation resurfaces every time a project gets to x.10 version number, e.g. KDE SC 4.10. Considering even HN audience which are mostly programmers find this versioning scheme confusing, I wish we have had settled on another identifier to separate minor and major version numbers. Something that didn't have a mathematical meaning. I personally like : and ::

One could use the pretty standard tuple notation: Rust (0, 9), KDE SC (4, 10). It's pretty common to represent version numbers in ways not dissimilar from that internally…

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