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elevator-crash-trigger · rust-mit-tech-review-2023

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elevator-crash-trigger
Assertion
The immediate trigger for Graydon Hoare creating Rust in 2006 was a broken elevator in his apartment building whose software had crashed.
Quote
Returning home to his apartment in Vancouver, he found that the elevator was out of order; its software had crashed. This wasn't the first time it had happened, either.
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