Grappling with growth, and other good problems to have
summary
Rust 2018 ships Dec 6 with concrete wins: non-lexical lifetimes, a module-system revamp, incremental compilation, rustfmt 1.0 and improved IDE support, and a raft of docs and domain working groups for embedded, CLI and WebAssembly. Adoption shows up in Firefox and Discord usage, GitHub PR rank (15th) and a clear crates.io downloads trend. Survey data shows 20% between 10k and 100k LOC and 3% larger, provoking real governance, funding and stability pressures (unsafe bootstrap usage, verification work like Rust Belt).
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chapters (30)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:41Coyote and Roadrunner
- 1:29The Road Map
- 3:17The First Era
- 5:48Rust 2018
- 11:21Coyote Roadrunner
- 12:00Dark sides to success
- 12:42New stakeholders
- 12:58Money and power
- 15:35Unstable Rust
- 17:13Shipping
- 18:12contributor growth
- 18:55team size
- 19:32technical leadership
- 21:29working groups
- 22:38team coordination
- 24:18larger scale programs
- 24:44code base growth
- 25:51problems with growth
- 26:26cliffs in Rust
- 27:57fractal language design
- 28:20Newcomer friendly
- 29:38Survey results
- 30:19Florians post
- 32:16Rust 2021
- 32:28Grappling with growth
- 33:24Core values
- 34:24Empowerment
- 34:43Questions
- 35:02Rust Belt
