That’s more or less what happened to Graydon Hoare. In 2006, Hoare was a 29-year-old computer programmer working for Mozilla, the open-source browser company.

The Rust language, originally created by Graydon Hoare and currently sponsored by Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Arm, and others, attempts to bring together these three attributes in one language.

Go was hatched at Google by (among others) Rob Pike and Ken Thompson; Rust was Graydon Hoare’s brainchild at Mozilla Research. Both began as experimental projects, but quickly flowered into full ...

Today, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft back the language that originally started as a personal project of Graydon Hoare before becoming a research project at Mozilla in 2010.

New and different A relatively new language, Rust was developed as a personal project by a programmer working at Mozilla in 2006. Graydon Hoare was inspired to create it following a frustrating ...

Rust started as Mozilla engineer Graydon Hoare’s personal project in 2006. Hoare explained the reasons behind his work in 2012: ...

First created in 2006 by Graydon Hoare as a side project while working at browser-developer Mozilla, headquartered in Mountain View, California, Rust blends the performance of languages such as ...

“Technology from the past comes to save the future from itself.” That’s how Graydon Hoare, the creator of Rust, describes what he wants to achieve. That’s one of the key hallmarks of Rust ...

Something to look forward to: Created by software developer Graydon Hoare while working at Mozilla Research in 2006, Rust keeps growing in popularity and winning new supporters among big tech ...