Rust turns 10: How a broken elevator changed software forever

https://www.zdnet.com/article/rust-turns-10-how-a-broken-elevator-changed-software-forever/

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ulterno@programming.dev · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Guess if it were me in his place, Rust would never have been made.

I just love using stairs.

busyvar@piaille.fr · 4 pts · 1y

@ulterno @cm0002 that's how they made assembly.

Kissaki@programming.dev · 6 pts · 1y

That 10 years ago.

Looks like they weren't able to borrow a 'was' for the sentence.

defolos_tech@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

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