Almost everyone in this video is an engineer on Rust, Servo, or Firefox. The exception is Dave Herman, head of Mozilla Research.
These are unscripted responses to questions, no powerpoint involved.
> They may not have used it, but know it exists.
There are a lot of programmers in the world, and many of them don't read Hacker News. I meet new people who have never heard of Rust every week almost. Or may have heard of it, but can't tell you what it's for, just vaguely remember hearing the name. Or have heard of it, but remember their first impression from a pre-1.0 version and haven't listened since. ("How's its GC?")
> but remember their first impression from a pre-1.0 version
Can confirm, I routinely observe people in the wild dismissing Rust based on the existence of the `@` and `~` sigils, not realizing that we removed those years ago. :P
I dismissed it when I first heard about it (prob just prior to 1.0). I saw "Mozilla" as a primary sponsor and just knee-jerk assumed it was part of the what-if-we-put-JS-here mania.
Thankfully due to repeated popularity on HN I gave it a try and I'm a convert now!
These are unscripted responses to questions, no powerpoint involved.
There are a lot of programmers in the world, and many of them don't read Hacker News. I meet new people who have never heard of Rust every week almost. Or may have heard of it, but can't tell you what it's for, just vaguely remember hearing the name. Or have heard of it, but remember their first impression from a pre-1.0 version and haven't listened since. ("How's its GC?")