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
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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 (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!
With Graydon Hoare no longer working on Rust, it's interesting to see that community build consensus without a BDFL.