<story><title>Yehuda Katz and Steve Klabnik Are Joining the Rust Core Team</title><url>http://blog.rust-lang.org/2014/12/12/Core-Team.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tomdale</author><text>Congratulations Yehuda and Steve!&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;ve been using Rust in production for awhile now, specifically because of its combo of native speed and memory safety[1]. This bending of traditional tradeoffs has let us implement features that would have been otherwise impossible.&lt;p&gt;Interfacing with Ruby via its C APIs, we are able to do some pretty crazy stuff, like sample memory allocations in production with imperceptible overhead[2]. Most importantly, we can do it without fear of segfaulting our customers&amp;#x27; servers.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s really great to see people other than low-level bitbangers being added to the core team. In this case, having a production user and someone focused on new users demonstrates the Rust team&amp;#x27;s commitment to building a functionally diverse community.&lt;p&gt;Lastly, I think opening up the core team to a wide coalition of companies is the right way to build a robust, long-lived open source project. Yehuda talked a little bit about this in his Indie OSS talk[2]. There are several &amp;quot;pathogens&amp;quot; that can affect open source projects, and the more diverse the distribution of power, the more likely you are to be immune to these pathogens.&lt;p&gt;1: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.skylight.io/bending-the-curve-writing-safe-fast-native-gems-with-rust/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.skylight.io&amp;#x2F;bending-the-curve-writing-safe-fast-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;2: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.skylight.io/announcing-memory-traces/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.skylight.io&amp;#x2F;announcing-memory-traces&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;3: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqXU4o24Hkg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=YqXU4o24Hkg&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Yehuda Katz and Steve Klabnik Are Joining the Rust Core Team</title><url>http://blog.rust-lang.org/2014/12/12/Core-Team.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>losvedir</author><text>Congrats! I actually didn&amp;#x27;t know they weren&amp;#x27;t already part of the core team. What exactly does this change entail, then?&lt;p&gt;The rust community is lucky to have these two. I recently went through the rust guide and it&amp;#x27;s terrific! And as a happy rubygems user, I&amp;#x27;m glad to see crates following a similar path.</text></comment>