I’m a fairly frequent Hacker News lurker, especially when I have some other important task that I’m avoiding. I normally head to the Active page (lots of comments, good for procrastination) and pick a nice long discussion thread to browse. So over time I’ve ended up with a good sense of what topics come up a lot. “The Bay Area is too expensive.” “There are too many JavaScript frameworks.” “Bootcamps: good or bad?” I have to admit that I enjoy these. There’s a comforting familiarity in reading the same internet argument over and over again.
One of the more interesting recurring topics is visual programming:
Rust s Most Unrecognized Contributor
2021-05-02
I think the Rust language is a big success.
When I think back on it I am in awe:
so much had to go right to get where we are,
and there were so many opportunities to go wrong.
It took many tiny miracles for the Rust language to become what it has.
Those miracles didn’t happen by accident though:
each one was created by a real person,
and real people orchestrated them to become something great.
There are many who contributed to Rust becoming what it is.
One of the people most responsible for Rust’s success though is almost completely unrecognized.
Vows to make safe C++-alike a mainstream language of choice as hundreds of devs wield it
Katyanna Quach Fri 30 Apr 2021 // 06:23 UTC Share
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Video Facebook is joining the Rust Foundation at its highest member level – and vowed to help make Rust a mainstream language of choice for systems programming and beyond.”
Rust was conceived at Mozilla Research in 2010 by Graydon Hoare as a C/C++-like programming language with a focus on safety and speed. We like to say Google invented the programming language Go – and Mozilla created No. One thing about Rust is that it refuses to build software that the programmer may not be aware is potentially or straight-up unsafe. The overall result is that you should end up making more reliable software.
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Published February 10, 2021, 8:09 AM
Started as a personal project by Mozilla employee Graydon Hoare in 2006, Rust has grown to one of the most-loved programming languages of recent times with its “hack without fear” slogan. Rust is described as a blazingly fast and memory-efficient systems programming language. With no runtime or garbage collector, it can power performance-critical services, run on embedded devices, and easily integrate with other languages.
The non-profit organization Mozilla, makers of the Firefox web browser, began sponsorship of the Rust project in 2009 and was formally announced to the general public the year after. But much more than a programming language and a community, Rust also represents a new, radical, way to collaborate on open source projects.