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> I've been using Rust daily for almost 10 years now, I'm just nitpicking but Rust is 7 years old and 7 doesn't feel almost 10... Edit: Rust hit 1.0 7 years a

> I've been using Rust daily for almost 10 years now, I'm just nitpicking but Rust is 7 years old and 7 doesn't feel almost 10... Edit: Rust hit 1.0 7 years ago. Now I feel silly.

capableweb 4y ago
Rust was initially created in 2006. Mozilla started sponsoring Rust in 2009. Maybe you're talking about the first stable release, which happened in 2015? Rust has been around for longer than the first stable release though. First spike at Google Trends for "Rust (Programming Language)" happened back in late 2013/early 2014 (https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0dsbpg6&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0...) so not at all impossible for someone to have ~10 years experience with it. Although that's probably pretty uncommon. As a bonus, here is a very old (by internet time standards) HN submission titled "Mozilla releases version 0.1 of the Rust programming language (mail.mozilla.org)" - 236 points | Jan 23, 2012 | 82 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3501980 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3501980
howinteresting 4y ago
BurntSushi has been using Rust since before 1.0.
nicoburns 4y ago
Rust hit 1.0 is 7 years ago. But burntsushi has been using Rust since before it hit 1.0
burntsushi 4y ago
Yeah as other have mentioned, I was using Rust before 1.0. This is my first public commit: https://github.com/BurntSushi/quickcheck/commit/c9eb2884d6a620b90b9986c65916eebc57084e89 https://github.com/BurntSushi/quickcheck/commit/c9eb2884d6a6... I didn't write any substantive Rust before that point. So I'm at over 9 years.
- raincole 4y ago
  oh I see. Sorry I didn't expect you're such an early adopter. Edit: Oh uh you're burntsushi. Should've checked your username.
nightpool 4y ago
The person you're replying to, BurntSushi, is one of the most well-known Rust library authors and has been publishing open source Rust code since (at least) March of 2014, when the initial commits on the old regex crate were recorded. That's 9 years, just based off of a random quick Github search, which was hardly exhaustive.
riceart 4y ago
If you’re going to nitpick you better be right, and you’re not. - and I think he might be too humble to say anything but you might want to look into who you’re replying to and their body of work. Rust has been around for well over a decade - the first “stable” release was 7 years ago. It’s always been opensource - any random hacker could download it and start using it since it was available. I think you will find kind quite a few people on this site that took it for a spin when it was still under development. I have nowhere near the credits of BurntSushi, and even I was dabbling with rust more than 7 years ago. Don’t be a reply guy.
- raincole 4y ago
  He did replied, and I apologize for being ignorant.
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> I've been using Rust daily for almost 10 years now, I'm just nitpicking but Rust is 7 years old and 7 doesn't feel almost 10... Edit: Rust hit 1.0 7 years ago. Now I feel silly.

capableweb 4y ago

Rust was initially created in 2006. Mozilla started sponsoring Rust in 2009. Maybe you're talking about the first stable release, which happened in 2015? Rust has been around for longer than the first stable release though. First spike at Google Trends for "Rust (Programming Language)" happened back in late 2013/early 2014 (https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0dsbpg6&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0...) so not at all impossible for someone to have ~10 years experience with it. Although that's probably pretty uncommon. As a bonus, here is a very old (by internet time standards) HN submission titled "Mozilla releases version 0.1 of the Rust programming language (mail.mozilla.org)" - 236 points | Jan 23, 2012 | 82 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3501980 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3501980

howinteresting 4y ago

BurntSushi has been using Rust since before 1.0.

nicoburns 4y ago

Rust hit 1.0 is 7 years ago. But burntsushi has been using Rust since before it hit 1.0

burntsushi 4y ago

Yeah as other have mentioned, I was using Rust before 1.0. This is my first public commit: https://github.com/BurntSushi/quickcheck/commit/c9eb2884d6a620b90b9986c65916eebc57084e89 https://github.com/BurntSushi/quickcheck/commit/c9eb2884d6a6... I didn't write any substantive Rust before that point. So I'm at over 9 years.

raincole 4y ago
oh I see. Sorry I didn't expect you're such an early adopter. Edit: Oh uh you're burntsushi. Should've checked your username.

nightpool 4y ago

The person you're replying to, BurntSushi, is one of the most well-known Rust library authors and has been publishing open source Rust code since (at least) March of 2014, when the initial commits on the old regex crate were recorded. That's 9 years, just based off of a random quick Github search, which was hardly exhaustive.

riceart 4y ago

If you’re going to nitpick you better be right, and you’re not. - and I think he might be too humble to say anything but you might want to look into who you’re replying to and their body of work. Rust has been around for well over a decade - the first “stable” release was 7 years ago. It’s always been opensource - any random hacker could download it and start using it since it was available. I think you will find kind quite a few people on this site that took it for a spin when it was still under development. I have nowhere near the credits of BurntSushi, and even I was dabbling with rust more than 7 years ago. Don’t be a reply guy.

raincole 4y ago
He did replied, and I apologize for being ignorant.

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