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 h

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