Miss Dada  🏳️‍⚧️

rust’s real superpower is that it’s the first “actually used” “systems” language with a package repo and shared community tooling. memory safety and static types are necessary to bootstrap social trust around unsafe interfaces, but they just got the ball rolling

this tweet brought to you by fever dreaming about postgres’ hypothetical Cargo.toml manifest and wondering what the subsequent decade of database, virtual machine, file system, and query planning development might have looked like

also, i’m really excited for http://crates.io  be a recursive dependency repo, hosting the deps for all the new interpreted languages people will write using rust. will be so cool to see a new code sharing ecosystem bootstrapped off of those toolchains

free idea: scripting languages that can import rust crates with small precompiled reflection wrappers. don’t even need a separate dependency repo then! bootstrap your high level language ecosystem from a growing ecosystem of robust low overhead libraries, get a NNN% headstart