Rise and Rise of Rust
The Quiet Beginning and the First Ripples In 2010, a Mozilla researcher named Graydon Hoare began working on a personal project born from frustration—a stuck elevator had triggered a software failure that could have been prevented with better memory management. This moment of annoyance would eventually give birth to Rust, a language that would fundamentally challenge how we think about systems programming. For its first few years, Rust remained largely within Mozilla’s walls, quietly evolving through rapid iterations....