“Why was Rust chosen for Libra?” in congressional hearing [video]
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#3Didn't expect a congressman to be so technical
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#4I feel like this is blindly upvoted. The video is underwhelming, and doesn't come close to answering the question.
That said, I'm very impressed by the congressman in the video, as it sounds like he knows what he's talking about. Wikipedia doesn't mention much about programming in his bio...
Re: “Why was Rust chosen for Libra?” in congressional hearing [video]
#5The congressman wants a job at Facebook.
Re: “Why was Rust chosen for Libra?” in congressional hearing [video]
#6I feel like this is blindly upvoted. The video is underwhelming, and doesn't come close to answering the question. That said, I'm very impressed by the congressman in the video, as it sounds like he knows what he's talking about. Wikipedia doesn't mention much about programming in his bio...
Looks like he comes from an NSA background. Have to say, I'm very heartened to see someone in congress ask such detailed technical questions about cybersecurity issues.
Re: “Why was Rust chosen for Libra?” in congressional hearing [video]
#7I feel like this is blindly upvoted. The video is underwhelming, and doesn't come close to answering the question. That said, I'm very impressed by the congressman in the video, as it sounds like he knows what he's talking about. Wikipedia doesn't mention much about programming in his bio...
Same. They’re grasp of the ecosystem and the involved bits of tech is exactly what more representatives needs to grasp.
Re: “Why was Rust chosen for Libra?” in congressional hearing [video]
#8Congressman: I was really surprised about the Rust language. So my first question is, why was the Rust language chosen as the implementation language for Libra? Do you believe it's mature enough to handle the security challenges that will affect these large cryptocurrency transactions?
Facebook: [We will own & control the code.]
Congressman: It looks like Libra was built on the nightly build of the Rust programming language. It's interesting because that's not how we did releases at the DoD. What features of Rust are only available in the nightly build that aren't in the official releases of Rust? Does Facebook see it as a concern that they are dependent on unofficially released features of the Rust language? Why the nightly releases? Do you see this as a function of the prototyping phase of this?
Facebook: [No answer]
Re: “Why was Rust chosen for Libra?” in congressional hearing [video]
#9I feel like this is blindly upvoted. The video is underwhelming, and doesn't come close to answering the question. That said, I'm very impressed by the congressman in the video, as it sounds like he knows what he's talking about. Wikipedia doesn't mention much about programming in his bio...
The title is misleading although technically correct. They did respond just not with anything more than a "we'll get back to you".
I do like the basics of his questions "who is committing code to Libra" and "why are using nightly build of Rust". I get the feeling he is not happy with it given his mention of "not how we usually did releases in the DOD" and pointing out the non-US coder. It will be interesting to see the technical response and his response to that.
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#10I don't think I've ever heard of a Congressman going to GitHub, poking around in some open source code, and then asking very cogent and relevant questions about it. This video is incredible if only because of that.