With Graydon Hoare no longer working on Rust, it's interesting to see that community build consensus without a BDFL.
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A fascinating discussion of how Graydon saw the original Rust design goals, and how today's Rust differs (in some ways better) than the original:
Graydon's presentation is a wonderful romp across different programming language implementations, I really enjoyed it!
https://venge.net/graydon/talks/CompilerTalk-2019.pdf https://twitter.com/anewtf/status/1335230251123826693
Graydon (creator of Rust and Monotone) has this excellent post discussing the importance of running tests on the code after merge, so the build stays green: https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/1597.html
What you may not realise is that he advocates for an even stronger CI guarantee in the comments!
