Four years with Rust
words.steveklabnik.com
Four years with Rust
1–10 of 199 posts
Re: Four years with Rust
#2You have relentlessly pushed for better documentation. Thanks for that :)
Re: Four years with Rust
#3Many thanks to the Rust team and the Rust community!
Also, retrospectives and posts where a core contributor summarizes the achievements and accomplishments of the previous few years are extremely valuable. These days software and tools evolve really fast and old resources fall off the face of the earth for a various reasons, and it's important to understand how things used to be and how we got to where we are now.
Re: Four years with Rust
#4For those of us who are getting to the party 3 years late, thank you.
Just my 2p for others learning: for me, Rc::RefCell was what I was missing, even after I thought I was up to speed. I was fine using Channels for inter-thread communication and I never needed Arc, but use of Rc is common in the Rust ecosystem and a lot of my early fights with the borrow checker weren't fights I needed to have. In situations where it wasn't a trivial change, and I found myself banging my head against the wall, it was often because I was in a situation that called for a reference counted cell.
Re: Four years with Rust
#5Steve is one of the amazing guys I have ever known. He answered all of my questions in IRC, he is such nice guy. I truly like him a lot. and most important point is Rust team chose him , because they realized how wonderful he is in communicating with people and being leader of community.
Re: Four years with Rust
#6It's interesting to see just how much the Rust language and libraries have evolved. Is there a wish list of breaking language changes waiting for a Rust 2.0 version?
Re: Four years with Rust
#7Steve is one of the amazing guys I have ever known. He answered all of my questions in IRC, he is such nice guy. I truly like him a lot. and most important point is Rust team chose him , because they realized how wonderful he is in communicating with people and being leader of community.
As far as I can tell he answers every question, and corrects every inaccuracy across at least these platforms: twitter, hackernews, reddit, [users|internals].rust-lang.org, irc; its mind blowing. Honestly, a talk on how he stays so connected without being awake 24/7 would be interesting ;)
Thanks, for all the hard work, Steve. You're devotion helped turn me into someone who loves Rust.
Re: Four years with Rust
#8Steve is one of the amazing guys I have ever known. He answered all of my questions in IRC, he is such nice guy. I truly like him a lot. and most important point is Rust team chose him , because they realized how wonderful he is in communicating with people and being leader of community.
As far as I can tell he answers every question, and corrects every inaccuracy across at least these platforms: twitter, hackernews, reddit, [users|internals].rust-lang.org, irc; its mind blowing. Honestly, a talk on how he stays so connected without being awake 24/7 would be interesting ;) Thanks, for all the hard work, Steve. You're devotion helped turn me into someone who loves Rust.
Thanks both, and achanda358!
It's taken lots of work. I think I'm a nicer and better person in Rust than I was in Ruby, but that's all I'll say about that. I am very much not a perfect human being.
> Honestly, a talk on how he stays so connected without being awake 24/7 would be interesting ;)
I wrote a blog post on that a while back: http://words.steveklabnik.com/how-do-you-find-the-time it's still mostly accurate kinda.
Re: Four years with Rust
#9Klabnik has single handedly permanently deterred me from ever using rust. Terrible person, terrible language, terrible organization.
Re: Four years with Rust
#10hmm. interesting