Getting to Rust

Background, TypeScript, coming to Rust, and how helpful the Rust community can be.

Show Notes

On Jonathan's programming backstory:

• TI-99/4A
• Commodore 64
• Cray
  • Chapel
• TypeScript
• Yehuda Katz
• ECMAScript Language Committee
• Data locality
• CPPCast
• BASIC
• Pascal
• Ultima

After the transition to working on Rust full-time:

• Improving the error messages—
  • design issue
  • Jonathan's personal blog post "Helping with the Rust Errors"
  • Official Rust blog post announcing and describing the feature, "Shape of Errors to Come"
  • Elm
  • error list issue

Sponsors

• Anthony Deschamps
• Anthony Scotti
• Aleksey Pirogov
• Andreas Fischer
• Andrew Thompson
• Austin LeSure
• Ben Whitley
• Charlie Egan
• Chris Jones
• Chris Palmer
• Christopher Giffard
• Dan Abrams
• Daniel Collin
• Derek Morr
• Eugene Bulkin
• Henri Sivonen
• Jakub "Limeth" Hlusička
• Jonathan Turner
• Jordan Henderson
• Jupp Müller
• Justin Ossevoort
• Karl Hobley
• Keith Gray
• Kilian Rault
• Lachlan Collins
• Luca Schmid
• Matt Rudder
• Matthew Piziak
• Max Jacobson
• Micael Bergeron
• Ovidiu Curcan
• Pascal Hertleif
• Patrick O'Doherty
• Peter Tillemans
• Philipp Keller
• Ralph Giles ("rillian")
• Raph Levien
• reddraggone9
• Steven Murawski
• Stuart Hinson
• Ty Overby
• Tyler Harper
• Vesa Kaihlavirta
• Warren Harper
• William Roe
• Zaki

(Thanks to the couple people donating who opted out of the reward tier, as well. You know who you are!)

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Contact

• New Rustacean:
  • Twitter: @newrustacean
  • Email: [email protected]
• Chris Krycho
  • GitHub: chriskrycho
  • Twitter: @chriskrycho