Rust sounds very promising in a lot of ways. It has a whole host of useful compiler technologies that we've known about for a long time, yet have not applied to industry languages.
All the pages about it at this link and at its project page give me zero help in figuring out if it's something I want to use, because none of the pages show any syntax whatsoever.<p>This is like the flat feature lists of the smartphone wars that matter exactly not-at-all.
Google came out with Go some months ago, now Mozilla presents Rust. Both languages seem to be targetted at the same audience, I fear it's mere corporate politics that prevent both from using the same language, isn't it?<p>Addon-question, don't know if it fits: Has Google's Go gained publicity apart from having a vibrant community on Google's mailing list?
From the PDF:<p><i>Rust is a curly-brace, block-structured statement language. It visually resembles the C language family, but differs significantly in syntactic and semantic details.</i><p>I'm not a programming language buff, but why curly-braces and C-style still in 2010?