Bryan Hyland

But I like to be hidden in the noise if I can.

Yeah, and I think that's what excites me the most about it.

Things like KDE and GNOME, I always wanted to contribute to them, but they're quite big codebases, right?

And also, they use frameworks like Qt and Libid WADA and all that stuff, and

You actually have to jump languages.

Like if you're using C++ for Qt, you also have to know the, I think it's QML or I can't remember the exact.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And just I have ADHD.

So jump in context like that is very hard for me to do.

And so I was never actually able to contribute no matter how much I wanted to.

And then here comes libcosmic.

And I had already been using Rust for a couple of years because.

Interesting.

Well, I learn anything that seems interesting, and I try to get ahead of the curve on new technologies and things like that if I can.

So I went ahead and started teaching myself Rust, and when I found out this is something that was written in Rust, I was like, oh, well, I could probably do that.

Small code base, I can get in from the ground up, and that's kind of where I started on it.

Well, actually, a little bit of a backstory.

I actually taught myself C++ when I was being retired from the Coast Guard.

I'm medically retired.