Comment by Hadrien G. on "Ask anything to Rust Language Team"

CommentAsk anything to Rust Language Team

Hadrien G.

Nov 2, 2017

A large fraction of the Rust team works at Mozilla, and I've always been a bit curious about how that came to be. I mean, I work with some MLOCs of hairy legacy C++ code at work, so I can understand the desire to have a better systems programming language, but there is a difference between dreaming that and hiring quite a large team to actually make it happen! Could you give me a bit of perspective on this?

Steve Klabnik

Nov 2, 2017

Yes I can!

Rust was originally a personal project of a Mozilla employee. At some point, Mozilla spun up an R&D division, and asked if people had projects they wanted to incubate. Rust and Servo were pitched to Mozilla as one of said projects, specifically to make a "generational leap" in web browser implementation. Management bought in, and both projects have been growing ever since.

I gave a talk for the ACM on Rust's early history that may interest you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79PSagCD_AY

Hadrien G.

Nov 2, 2017

Hah, clicking on the link led me to the realization that I had already seen that talk before! But I keep getting amazed at how much Mozilla has invested into this project :)

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