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Some open source communities seem to get their inspiration from Danté's "Inferno": "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."
Despite the critical importance of using and contributing more open source, it's hard to get excited about joining a "community" that feels like standing before a firing line. Yet this is precisely how many open source projects operate.
Not so the Rust community. Begun as an ambitious side project by a Mozilla employee, the Rust programming language promises to blend the control of a low-level language with the flexibility of a high-level language. Or, as Serdar Yegulalp writes, "Mozilla's bigger ambitions for Rust ostensibly include not just system-native software like Web browsers, but entire operating systems as well, given the language's billing as a way to achieve speed without sacrificing safety."
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