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The History of Rust — ACM

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Key
klabnik-rust-history-acm-2016
Authors
Klabnik, Steve
Issued
2016
Type
speech
Publisher
ACM
Raw CSL JSON
{
  "URL": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79PSagCD_AY",
  "note": "ACM talk; source for contributor count (~1,400) and Crates.io library count (~5,000) as of one year after Rust 1.0 (2016)",
  "type": "speech",
  "title": "The History of Rust",
  "author": [
    {
      "given": "Steve",
      "family": "Klabnik"
    }
  ],
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [
      [
        2016
      ]
    ]
  },
  "publisher": "ACM"
}

Claims

  1. A year after Rust 1.0, the Rust compiler had over 1,400 contributors and Crates.io hosted over 5,000 third-party libraries.
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