Jim Blandy

Jim Blandy has been programming since 1981, and writing Free software since 1990. He has been the maintainer of GNU Emacs and GNU Guile, and a maintainer of GDB, the GNU Debugger. He is one of the original designers of the Subversion version control system. Jim now works on Firefox’s web developer tools for Mozilla.

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Why Rust?

September 4, 2015

Trustworthy, concurrent systems programming.

The Rust programming language: Fast, safe, and beautiful

January 19, 2015

Rust offers the performance and control over memory of C and C++, combined with a type system that catches memory leaks, null pointer fetches, dangling pointers, and thread interactions.