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dherman
September 23, 2012
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My Emerging Languages 2012 talk: an introduction to Rust, a new open source systems language.
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September 23, 2012
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a systems language pursuing the trifecta safe, concurrent, fast
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github.com/mozilla/servo
$ hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central ... 66238 files updated, 0 files
merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved $ cd mozilla-central $ find . -name '*.c' -or -name '*.cpp' -or -name '*.h' -or -name '*.tbl' | xargs wc -l | fgrep total | awk '{total = total + $1}END{print total}' 5433119
2009: Graydon starts full-time work on Rust 2010: Team begins
to grow 2011: Self-hosting via LLVM 2012: 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4 (soon), and beyond...
♥ The Rust Team Brian Anderson • Tim Chevalier •
Graydon Hoare • Niko Matsakis • Patrick Walton Interns and Alumni Michael Bebenita • Ben Blum • Rafael Espíndola • Roy Frostig • Marijn Haverbeke • Eric Holk • Lindsey Kuper • Elliott Slaughter • Paul Stansifer • Michael Sullivan
• stack allocation • data ownership • monomorphisation and inlining
• actors • message-passing • failure • type safety • pattern matching • type classes • no null
PERFORMANCE CONCURRENCY TYPES
FAST
“Sometimes, cleaning up your code makes it slower even when
it shouldn’t.” — Robert O’Callahan “Abstraction Penalties, Stack Allocation and Ownership Types” http://j.mp/abstraction-penalties
let vec = [1, 2, 3]; vec.each(|item| { print(fmt!("%d ",
item)); true });
let vec = [1, 2, 3]; for vec.each |item| {
print(fmt!("%d ", item)); }
fn from_origin(x: float, y: float) -> float { let x0
= 0.0, y0 = 0.0; dist(x, y, x0, y0) }
struct Point { x: float, y: float }
fn from_origin(p: Point) -> float { let origin = Point
{ x: 0.0, y: 0.0 }; dist(p, origin) }
fn print_point(p: &Point) { match *p { Point {x,y} =>
println(fmt!("(%f, %f)", x, y)) } }
fn print_point(p: &Point) { match *p { Point {x,y} =>
println(fmt!("(%f, %f)", x, y)) } } fn f() { let p = Point { ... }; print_point(&p); }
let p = @Point { ... }; print_point(p);
let p = ~Point { ... }; print_point(p);
let p = ~Point { ... }; box.topLeft = move
p; // deinitialized print_point(p); // error
let p; // uninitialized print_point(p); // error p = ~Point
{ ... };
Rust C++ &T! T& @T! shared_ptr<T> ~T! unique_ptr<T>
CONCURRENT
heap
heap
heap
None
Shared Heap
Shared Heap
Shared Heap
let (ch, port) = pipes::stream(); do spawn |move ch| {
let s = ~Point { x: 1.0, y: 2.0 }; ch.send(s); } let s = port.recv(); assert s.x == 1.0; assert s.y == 2.0;
SAFE
fn is_empty<T>(v: &[T]) -> bool { v.len() == 0 }
struct Monster { name: &str, mut health: int } struct
Player { mut health: int }
impl Monster { fn attack(&self, player: &Player) { player.health -=
10; } } monster.attack(&player);
trait ToJSON { fn to_json(&self) -> ~str; }
impl Monster : ToJSON { fn to_json(&self) -> ~str {
fmt!(...) } } impl Player : ToJSON { fn to_json(&self) -> ~str { fmt!(...) } }
fn save<T:ToJSON>(x: &T, file: &str) { let writer = file_writer(...).get();
writer.write(x.to_json()); } save(&player, "p.json"); save(&monster, "m.json");
struct<T:Send> Chan<T> { ... } impl<T:Send> Chan<T> { fn send(&self,
x: T) { ... } }
struct ARC<T:Const Send> { ... }
let img: Image = load_image(); let handle0: ARC<Image> = ARC(move
img); for N.times { let handle = handle0.clone(); do spawn |move handle| { display_image(handle); } }
Modula-3 unsafe module Java native sun.misc.Unsafe Ocaml Obj.magic Haskell unsafePerformIO
Rust unsafe { ... }
regions, region subtyping & polymorphism, arenas traits as existentials mutability
tracking, purity, and borrow checking freezing/thawing data structures task-local storage linked failure one-shot closures macros
Good reads smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps pcwalton.github.com
Join us rust-lang.org
[email protected]
irc.mozilla.org :: #rust
Thank you.
Image credits Sean Martell http://blog.seanmartell.com Martyn http://www.flickr.com/photos/martyn/438111857/in/set-102261 Ian Kobylanski http://www.flickr.com/photos/iankobylanski/6151659680
Sudhir Naik http://www.flickr.com/photos/sudhirnaik/4890017884/ Thomas Gibbard http://www.flickr.com/photos/22305783@N06/3947478553