What does HackerNews think of rust-prehistory?
historical archive of rust pre-publication development
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If, on the other hand, you’re interested in pre-modern Rust, there’s always this repo: https://github.com/graydon/rust-prehistory
As Graydon Hoare notes in the comments on GitHub this wasn't the first repo so the real history goes back even further. He's also shared a "prehistory" repo [1] which is interesting to browse. The first commit [2] in _that_ repo is from 2008 but Graydon mentions starting work back in 2006.
Anyway in a sense this repo represents Rust in the real world rather than in gestation, so seems apt to call it the birthday.
[1] https://github.com/graydon/rust-prehistory
[2] https://github.com/graydon/rust-prehistory/commit/1969e085e3...
Two other links related to ancient Rust:
* https://github.com/graydon/rust-prehistory -> the code from before the rust-lang/rust repo
* https://youtube.com/watch?v=79PSagCD_AY -> a talk I gave around the 1.0 release (that recording is lost, this is the only other time I gave the talk so it could be recorded) giving my personal perspective on the history.
Oh heck, one more fun one: https://github.com/brson/archaea
It's in the repository, just way back in the history.
https://github.com/graydon/rust-prehistory would also be of interest to you.