Reflections on Discovering Rust and Programming Language Evolution
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steveklabnik
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Summary
The author reflects on their journey with programming languages, starting from discovering Rust in 2012 while working with Ruby and Rails. They discuss their background in compilers and systems programming from college, their initial positive experience with Rust, and their decision to explore whether Rust would become significant in the programming world. The article appears to be a personal reflection on technology adoption and programming language evolution.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledIn December of 2012, I was home for Christmas, reading Hacker News. And that's when I saw 'Rust 0.5 released.'
I'm a big fan of programming languages, so I decided to check it out.
At the time, I was working on Ruby and Rails, but in college, I had wanted to focus on compilers, and my friends were all very much into systems stuff.
So I decided to give Rust a try. And I liked it!
So I asked myself: is Rust going to be A Thing?
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