10 Years of Rust: Why? - Alex Crichton

Rust of today looks and feels quite different from Rust of 10+ years ago. When I started many of today’s key features did not exist: stability, Cargo, crates.io, async, Tokio, MSVC integration, wasm integration, proc macros, project governance, conferences, production users, or a community-at-scale. What in the world could motivate someone to stick around so long until this all came into existence? I hope to convince you that I’m not a madman for still being here and also stick around for another 10 years of Rust. I know I plan to do so! This talk was given at Rust Week 2025, in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Playlist of other talks from Rust Week 2025:    • RustWeek 2025 - All talks   Want to come to Rust Week 2026 in-person? go to https://2026.rustweek.org