Though I have enjoyed reading coding blogs for years now, I have never thought seriously about doing my own, most probably because the main language I use is C++, which doesn't really inspire me, to say the least.

However, I have been inspired by Rust for about a year or so now (and still going strong!). While it has been more than a year since 1.0, there is a still a huge amount of stuff that is improving on a daily basis, and as this blog post points out, Rust needs more content of all types.

I had a wonderful conversation with Steve Klabnik and others about this a couple months back when he came to Boston for the meetup. Someone had asked what one of the biggest blockades to adoption he could see being in Rust’s way. His answer was that we need people to talk about Rust and provide tutorials and projects.

I thought maybe this blog could be one way I could help the Rust community. Not only because they are a lovely bunch of people, but also because I want to increase that community to include more and more C++ programmers so that the balance eventually tips over and they start using Rust as their default language of choice when starting new projects or rewriting old ones.

Also when I attended RustFest I was struck by this quote from Ashley Williams in her talk.

teaching is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is

This is something I have thought about before, but it definitely reminded me that I absolutely learn a lot more when I want to relay information to a wider audience (mostly to reduce my chances of looking like a dumbass).

So in conclusion, I guess I am writing this because I am selfish and want to use a nicer language when possible, as well as improve myself, and my evil master plan is to write nice (and hopefully helpful) stuff about Rust. (I will try to keep C++ snark to a minimum, but I have used the language for so long now, I think I deserve some leeway)

fn main() {
    println!("Hello, Internetz");
}