Tom / Context Free

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I make videos about programming languages: https://youtube.com/@contextfree | he/him | God is good. Black lives matter.
@jntrnr But yeah, Rust has some solid growth on GitHub. Lower on Stack Overflow for now. But if GH is a sign of future corporate behavior, I think it's likely that Rust will be a fully mainstream option in a few years.
@jntrnr And the query scripts are sort of disorganized, but they are in the repo for those curious. On Go, the main thing I can't figure out is why State of the Octoverse has it so much lower than what I see in my queries. I don't think their queries are public though, and they also maybe use data in a form that's not shared publicly.
And no, that's not actually the reason why I use Zig when I do. But I still like it.
One benefit of making videos that feature Zig is having an excuse to put the Zig logo on the thumbnail. Because the Zig logo looks awesome. And also has a nice related emoji. ⚡️
Seems I mostly use github stars like breadcrumbs. Sometimes I see a cool repo, but I've already starred it, so it means I'd seen it.

Timeline cleanse: This baby elephant messing around with an on air reporter is totally adorbs 🥰

(h/t Sheldrick Wildlife Trust)

I see Mastodon saying DMs aren't end-to-end encrypted. Seems like Mastodon might be a great way to bootstrap PKI use for mortals. I haven't searched to see if anyone's working on that, but it would be nice.
I work for a small company who's looking for experienced programming language enthusiasts and compiler devs. Fully remote. If you're interested, DM me, and I can get you in touch.
And async traits are the first thing Nike Matsakis talks about in his latest blog post looking at possible goals for Rust 2024. https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2022/09/22/rust-2024-the-year-of-everywhere/
Rust 2024...the year of everywhere? · baby steps

Interesting read here, and it's neither a hot take nor anti-Rust nor anti-Go. https://levelup.gitconnected.com/why-i-switched-from-rust-to-go-on-the-backend-28bda21dbee9