Long long ago, in 2009, Graydon was my official on-boarding mentor when I joined the Mozilla Javascript team. Rust already existed then but, as he notes, was quite different then. For one thing, it was GC'd, like Fil-C. Which I like -- I write a lot of my C/C++ code using Boehm GC, have my own libraries designed knowing GC is there, etc.
Long long ago, in 2009, Graydon was my official on-boarding mentor when I joined the Mozilla Javascript team. Rust already existed then but, as he notes, was quite different then. For one thing, it was GC'd, like Fil-C. Which I like -- I write a lot of my C/C++ code using Boehm GC, have my own libraries designed knowing GC is there, etc.