Rust turns 10: How a broken elevator changed software forever (www.zdnet.com)

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

So Hoare, sick of dragging himself up 21 flights of stairs every day, began designing a new computer language. He wanted to create a small, fast programming language without the potential for memory bugs.

Dude figured it'd work better to invent a new language than to fix the bugs in the software: gigachad move

this post was submitted on 21 May 2025

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