Re:One year of Rust
by kibwen on Monday May 16, 2016 @04:09PM
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For the record, I take issue with the "almost a decade" label, development on Rust didn't start in earnest until 2010 at the earliest. :P It's about as misleading as saying that Go is 40 years old just because its commit graph goes back that far (https://github.com/golang/go/graphs/contributors).
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Re:One year of Rust
by steveklabnik on Monday May 16, 2016 @04:34PM
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It depends on how you define "in earnest". Graydon started in 2006, which is a decade, though obviously it was very slow at first. My "almost" is an almost because of those personal project years. YMMV of course :P
Re:One year of Rust
by laughinghan on Monday May 16, 2016 @07:59PM
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The 4 commits before 2008 are pretty clearly not development on Go in any sense, they appear to be Brian Kernighan playing with the syntax and styling for a C "hello world" program: https://github.com/golang/go/commits/master?page=810
No one would say those commits show he was working on Go as a "personal project" during that time.
And I guarantee that none of the Rust commits from before 2011 survive to this day, because the compiler was rewritten from scratch in 2011. :P A different argument could say that Go dates back to 1995, because Go is essentially an evolution of Rob Pike's language Limbo.