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Re:How the AWS team will contribute to Rust’s success by kchr on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @12:34PM (#26331712)
> Niko, for example, plans to continue posting ideas to his babysteps blog before they are fully formed, and he is counting on the Rust community to continue to poke holes in them.

Well, I guess personal notes/braindump counts as contribution now as well. Can I use that for my CV? :D

Re:How the AWS team will contribute to Rust’s success by sanxiyn on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @12:38PM (#26331771)
If your notes look like "Polonius and the case of the hereditary harrop predicate", sure why not.

http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2019/01/21/here...

Re:How the AWS team will contribute to Rust’s success by duckerude on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @12:41PM (#26331809)
Niko has an impressive record of both proposals and concrete contributions, FWIW: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/graphs/contributors https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/graphs/contributors
Re:How the AWS team will contribute to Rust’s success by Ar-Curunir on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @12:46PM (#26331889)
Niko Matsakis is one of the core contributors behind important Rust features like borrowck

If you want to be patronizing, at least be correct

Re:How the AWS team will contribute to Rust’s success by ojnabieoot on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @01:21PM (#26332384)
You probably could if you had a record of accomplishment and Rust leadership like Niko does! (And if you did I would assume your personal notes / braindump would be worth reading).
Re:How the AWS team will contribute to Rust’s success by kchr on Thursday March 04, 2021 @02:39AM (#26339755)
I didn't realize he was _that_ Niko. Apologies and thank you for spelling it out!
Re:How the AWS team will contribute to Rust’s success by indemnity on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @04:39PM (#26334988)
#2 committer of all time to the Rust project.