A brief history of Rust, a programming language that emerged from a side project and has been instrumental in driving the shift toward memory safe programming (Clive Thompson/MIT Technology Review)

Clive Thompson / MIT Technology Review:
A brief history of Rust, a programming language that emerged from a side project and has been instrumental in driving the shift toward memory safe programming  —  For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++.  Now they turn to Rust.  —  Many software projects emerge because …