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technology-from-the-past · rust-mit-tech-review-2023

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technology-from-the-past
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The Rust developers described their approach as drawing on established but underutilized programming language research, calling it 'mostly decades-old research.'
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Many of the tricks Rust employed weren't new ideas: "They're mostly decades-old research," says Manish Goregaokar, who runs Rust's developer-tools team and worked for Mozilla in those early years. But the Rust engineers were adept at finding these well-honed concepts and turning them into practical, usable features.
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