Rust was specifically designed to be refactorable and in my experience it is. It was part of the dogfooding process of building Rust in Rust - lots of changes to the language, lots of changes to the compiler, lots of churn. Rust's strong type system means you can refactor and be confident that programs continue to work.
To the students and mentors: congrats. GSoC is a great program and a great way to get involved in the industry. I hope you had an amazing experience.
Not to take away from them, but the first sentence of this official Rust post kinda stunned me: "the Rust Project participated in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for the first time this year". There may be an interpretation of this sentence that is true, but multiple students have worked on Rust GSoC projects under Mozilla (which at the time ran the Rust Project), and quite a few worked on Rust GSoC projects under other organizations.
At the least, Michael Woerister worked on debuginfo in 2013, and Igor Matuszewski on the RLS in 2017. [1] [2]
Please Rust Project do better at remembering your history.
Having so many students involved in Rust was huge. Definitely the most rewarding thing about working on Rust was seeing students get involved, grow, then turn that experience into a career, while seeding the industry with Rust talent.
Reddit also uses commonmark, plus some GitHub flavored markdown extensions, via the comrak library, plus some custom extensions. So Reddit markdown should mostly look like GitHub.
Reddit seems to use two different Markdown engines. I use old.reddit.com, and I've noticed that some users that use new Reddit post code in ``` blocks. That doesn't work on old Reddit where you need to put four spaces in front of every line for it to render as code, so it just looks messy. I'm guessing their WYSIWYG editor uses the ``` version.
I went looking for some examples and found these two. The first [0] is someone that tried to post a ``` block, but it's not rendering properly on old Reddit. It does render ok as a code block on new Reddit in a private window.
The second [1] is somebody that posted a ``` block but also indented all lines with four spaces. That renders as a code block with ``` lines before and after it on old Reddit, and as extra indented code on new Reddit.
If you use RES you can look at the raw Markdown code for each comment using the source link.
Maybe you´re thinking of inline code which use a single ` before and after the code content?
The old Reddit formatting wiki page doesn't mention ``` now I look, there's a note on new Reddit about sticking to spaces for compatability: https://www.reddit.com/wiki/markdown Would be nice if they fixed it indeed.
That version of Rust also did async I/O in the runtime. Async I/O has always been part of Rust. The model changed because there was too much overhead doing it the more ergonomic way and it got booted out of the runtime.
Just remembering this deck and thought it might be interesting to this audience. This is the very first public documentation about Rust (Servo is not actually defined in this deck...), Graydon's slides from the Mozilla Summit 2010, dated 2010/07/07.
As far as I can tell, beyond this talk, there wasn't a formal "announcement" about Rust's initial open-sourcing (if somebody knows otherwise please link). It was mentioned the next day on LtU: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4009
