Main Points:

• Rust turns 10 years old since the 1.0 release, with remarkable growth and change.
• It is about a community coming together to design and maintain shared technical infrastructure.
• Programming languages are technical infrastructure, and Rust is for building other infrastructure.
• The initial need for Rust was due to the failure of existing infrastructure.
• Mozilla and other parties made significant investments in Rust.
• Rust has gone through many improvements since 2006, but still has room for growth.
• There have been substantial changes in software artifacts and beyond, including books, courses, and organizational work.
• Looking ahead, maintaining a stable community and addressing scaling issues are important.

Key Information:

• Rust's initial implementation was limited, but it has grown significantly.
• Mozilla's investment quadrupled and then doubled the Rust team size.
• Rust sits on top of LLVM and benefits from academic research.
• There have been many contributors and a large number of changes since 1.0.
• The Rust ecosystem includes a vast package ecosystem and various learning materials.
• The Rust Foundation and leadership council have been formed.

Important Details:

• The baby Rust in 2006-09 had no type checker and ran on only 3 platforms.
• By 1.0, Rust had an advanced type system and could run on most LLVM targets.
• At 1.0, Rust had a limited IDE experience and package ecosystem.
• There were no standard methods for high-performance IO or networking at 1.0.
• Since 1.0, every change has passed an exhaustive testsuite and been regression-tested.
• There are now thousands of contributors and a large number of RFCs.
• The set of crates tested against each release has grown significantly.