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		rmoriz on Jan 24, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mozilla releases version 0.1 of the Rust programmi... If you reinvent the wheel you should at least have one plausible use case that shows the benefit of your square/wheel over existing solutions. Bonus points for real world examples.

samth on Jan 24, 2012 [–]

Imagine Firefox, but without segfaults, and using multiple cores.

That's the use case. Rust is intended as a safe language for building a research browser that works in parallel.

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