Cian Butler

Will there be a new language?

Definitely.

I think it's going to start with a thanks because I wouldn't be doing what I enjoy right now without the Rust community.

That knowledge sharing, the Rust books, people willing to talk about it.

And whenever someone's willing to talk about it, it's always that very enthusiastic talking about it.

Like I was lucky enough at FOSDEM to go for dinner with a lot of the other speakers for the Rust Room.

The enthusiasm people have about their projects and about the language, it's great.

And people are always willing to have a very open conversation and talk about different things, lessons learned and all that kind of stuff.

And I got to say, that's such a great thing and we need to keep that.

So it's so important.

I don't think I would have got into Rust without that because it's what led... Reading the Rust book is what let me learn Rust.

It's such a nice way to learn.

And I think we have to keep focusing on ways to make it easy to get new people into learning the language, to make it a better language, and to make people not think of it as a fad or...

a systems programming language.

We have to like focus on that path for beginners.

Tools like Clippy have done massive improvements there.

Like, it's more than just a linter.

It's a tool for helping you learn how to write good and idiomatic Rust.

Like,

And when we focus on tooling that's natural to humans, I think we just come up with a better language.