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Graydon Hoare

1977–

Independent · ex-Mozilla · creator of Rust

Gave us

Rust. Started it as a personal project in 2006; Mozilla picked it up in 2010; it's now in the Linux kernel, AWS Firecracker, Cloudflare workers, Zed, and a thousand other places.

The story

Mozilla colleagues realised Rust's significance before Graydon did. He has since worked on Swift and now writes thoughtful blog posts about programming-language design.

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