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My high school Latin classmates and I made garum and left it to ferment in my back yard for a month. Young and foolish as we were, we stored it in a plastic Tupperware container. T…

Cool!

Ha, I just tried the same trick with Rust: //$HOME/.cargo/bin/rustc "$0" && ${0%.rs} "$@" ; exit use std::env; fn main() { println!("hello, world!"); for arg in env::args() { print…

In case it was directed at me, I’ll say yes, it’s on my mind, but my first goal was to have the full power of the entire OS facilities, the full Cargo ecosystem, and full native pe…

That's a cool idea! The closest thing today is probably neon-serde, a cool community library that lets you generate bindings from lightweight Rust annotations: https://docs.rs/neon…

Neon maintainer here, happy to answer any questions folks might have! It's a pretty exciting time for Neon. We're nearly feature-complete for a 1.0 release, which will come with a …

For context, one of the co-authors is Niko Matsakis, a recent hire at AWS and one of the longest-running leaders in the Rust community (among many things, inventor of the borrow ch…

The Bayeux Tapestry Museum is hands down the best museum experience I’ve ever had. It’s really something else.

I remember sitting outside a Mountain View Starbuck's with Lars Hansen, then at Opera, and Brendan Eich, then at Mozilla, and listening to Lars explain that he'd lost faith that ES…

I’m excited about Actions generally, so I’m glad to hear your team is aware of the challenges of building a reliable ecosystem of third party dependencies by reference to repos. St…

If you ever have the opportunity, I highly recommend the show about Polynesian voyaging at the Bishop Museum planetarium in Honolulu. You learn a little bit about navigation by sta…

Guy Steele's friend Olin Shivers [1] was the PhD advisor of Matt Might [2] and Lex Spoon [3]. I'm pretty confident the entire field of programming languages research is a Marvel co…

Wasn't it Joe Hewitt?

The reason for layering is that the lower layer code remains compatible and even, let's say, idiomatically acceptable if excessively verbose.

By way of update from the standards trenches: threads are indeed a part of the WebAssembly plan, and we're also actively working on standardizing the SharedArrayBuffer API for Java…

I think part of what pcwalton and metajack are getting at is that Servo isn't "just a research vehicle" but rather intends to keep seeking adoption. I don't believe adoption and re…

Maybe it's a clue that Mozillians are secretly building a handlink: http://quantumleap.wikia.com/wiki/Handlink

I can tell you from where I sit at Mozilla, everyone is very excited about Servo. It just takes time to build things! :) It wouldn't make sense to wait for Servo to reach full web …

[disclaimer: I co-founded Mozilla Research, which sponsors Servo] It's awesome to see the Gecko team continue to tackle big, ambitious projects now that electrolysis is rolling out…

It's frustrating but unfortunately all-too-common to see the number of posts in this thread subtly (or not-so-subtly) questioning the "seriousness" of the speaker. In my opinion, t…

There are a few basic use cases I envision being the most common: - When you have a portion of your Node app you really want to optimize (Rust's baseline computational performance …

I don't know if there's a uniform Mozilla position on this, but here's mine! :) The main reason I care about the Web is because it's the world's biggest software platform that isn'…

[I'm a colleague of the OP and Mozilla/TC39 member, i.e. someone who cares a lot about the JS programming model :)] I'm enthusiastic about SharedArrayBuffer because, unlike threads…

Yeah, I won't try to speak for Eric or the SpiderMonkey team. Maybe Eric is firmly in support of STC, but in my experience he's very good at going beyond just implementation concer…

Still, I wouldn't say nobody cracked a smile at the last TC39 meeting... ;P