Rust turns 10: How a broken elevator changed software forever (www.zdnet.com)
from cm0002@lemmy.sdf.org to rust@programming.dev on 21 May 13:30
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Kissaki@programming.dev on 21 May 21:02 next collapse

That 10 years ago.

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

ulterno@programming.dev on 22 May 06:01 next collapse

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

I just love using stairs.

busyvar@piaille.fr on 22 May 06:23 collapse

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

defolos_tech@lemmy.world on 24 May 19:23 collapse

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