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Why Rust?.
I’ve been a programmer for 20+ years, and few things excite me as much as Rust. My background is mostly in C++, though I have also worked in Python and Lua, and dabbled in many more languages. I started writing Rust around 2014, and since 2018 I’ve been writing Rust full time. In my spare time I’ve developed a popular Rust GUI crate, egui.

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