rust-timeline.md

A Rust timeline

This is a timeline of important events in Rust's history, mostly focusing on the pre-1.0 era.

• 2006/07/23 - Graydon starts working on Rust

  • https://github.com/graydon/rust-prehistory
  • https://github.com/graydon/rust-prehistory/commit/b0fd440798ab3cfb05c60a1a1bd2894e1618479e

• 2009/??/?? - Graydon starts working on Rust for Mozilla

• 2010/06/16 - Initial commit to git repo

  • https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commit/c01efc669f09508b55eced32d3c88702578a7c3e

• 2010/07/07 - Rust announced at Mozilla Summit, Whistler

  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Summit2010/Schedule
  • 3:45 PM. Session B093 - Servo Project
  • http://venge.net/graydon/talks/intro-talk-2.pdf

• 2010/07/08 - Rust mentioned on LtA

  • http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4009

• 2010/0?/?? - Patrick enters project

• 2010/12/?? - Raphael enters project

• 2010/12/?? - Brian enters project as volunteer

• 2011/??/?? - Marijn enters project under contract

• 2011/04/29 - rustc bootstraps

  • https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2011-April/000341.html

• 2011/05/?? - Brian joins Mozilla

• 20??/??/?? - Marijn exits project

• 20??/??/?? - Raphael exits project

• 2012/01/20 - Rust 0.1 released

• 2012/03/29 - Rust 0.2 released

• 2012/04/26 - roc convinces Samsung to work on Servo

  • http://robert.ocallahan.org/2012/04/korea.html

• 2012/07/12 - Rust 0.3 released

• 2012/07/20 - Rust 0.3.1 released (Mac fix)

• 2012/10/15 - Rust 0.4 released

• 2012/12/21 - Rust 0.5 released

• 2013/??/?? - Alex enters project

• 2013/04/03 - Rust 0.6 released

• 2013/07/03 - Rust 0.7 released

• 2013/??/?? - Graydon exits project

  • todo: link to email
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/7qels2/i_wonder_why_graydon_hoare_the_author_of_rust/

• 2013/??/?? - Alex joins Mozilla

• 2013/09/26 - Rust 0.8 released

• 2013/??/?? - Tim exits project

• 2014/01/09 - Rust 0.9 released

• 2014/04/04 - Rust 0.10 released

• 2014/06/?? - (new) Cargo initial alpha release

• 2014/07/02 - Rust 0.11 released

• 2015/04/10 - Leakpocalypse

• 2015/05/15 - Rust 1.0 released

• ? - Removal of garbage collector

• ? - Removal of green threading

• ? - "mutpocalypse"

• ? - "libcpocalypse"

• 2020/08/11 - Mozilla fires everybody on the Rust and Servo teams except Niko

  • This marks the end of Mozilla Research, Servo, and the Rust Project at Mozilla
  • https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/08/11/changing-world-changing-mozilla/
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24120336