Steve is concerned [http://words.steveklabnik.com/rust-is-more-than-safety] that an overfocus on safety might sell Rust short. At its least compelling, safety turns into a PSA for you to "eat your vegetables." And he makes a good point that for people who have only worked with safe languages,

Something I've been working on lately is finding more little ways to connect with new people. Yehuda [https://twitter.com/wycats] and Brendan [https://twitter.com/BrendanEich] are really good at this. Their m.o. seems to be find any little excuse to reach out and start a

Programming language experts like to claim that syntax doesn't matter, that semantics is all that counts. Don't believe them! They're overrotating on a common, pre-rigorous [https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/there%E2%80%99s-more-to-mathematics-than-rigour-and-proofs/] misunderstanding of language design as superficially aesthetic. The study of

Between JavaScript standardization, building a research organization [https://mozilla.org/research] at Mozilla, and helping grow the Rust [https://www.rust-lang.org], Servo [https://servo.org], and WebAssembly [https://github.com/WebAssembly] projects, I get a lot of practice at consensus-building. Probably my favorite "one weird trick" is

We had a discussion in TC39 this week about how to think about the JS module system [http://jsmodules.io]'s default export feature. It turns out one of the ways people explain this feature is as a shorthand for an export with the name default. For example: import