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0 pointsatarian8y ago0 comments

Which is mainly because Yehuda Katz (Rust core member) works at Skylight.

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To be clear about the chronology here, wycats made the decision to go with Rust, then did a lot of work in Rust, then became a core team member. He chose Rust because of his needs in Skylight, not because he was already invested in Rust.

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2014/12/12/Core-Team.html

> Yehuda Katz will be known to many in the Rust community for his work on the initial design and implementation of the Cargo project. He is also a co-founder of Tilde, which has been using Rust commercially in their Skylight product for quite some time

wycats8y ago

For slightly more context, I wrote the first lines of Rust code for Skylight as a spike at the end of 2013, and joined the Rust core team more than a year later. :)

I was largely inspired by a blog post in June 2013 by Patrick Walton: Removing Garbage Collection From the Rust Language[1]

[1]: http://pcwalton.github.io/blog/2013/06/02/removing-garbage-c...

igravious8y ago

Do you code in Ruby any more or is it all Rust these days? If you had to build a web app what would you use?

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