Comment by fulafel
5 months ago
The most interesting slide IMO:
The diaspora
Mozilla laid off much of the Rust team in August 2020
- Hacker News discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24143819
~everybody landed at a big tech company
Result: Rust knowledge well distributed around industry
No one company dominates
- In contrast to Java, Swift, Go, C#, Dart
Strong sense of collaboration & common mission
- You can really feel this at conferences
Regarding Go, does Google actually "dominates“? Google has a team for the development of the language but does that mean it dominates?
Yes. To land a change in the Go standard library, you'll need 2 Google employees to approve your change on their "trusted devices".
This is demonstrably false. There are many approvers that do not work for Google.
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