I'd be cool to use Rust if the foundation stopped being racist, lying, cowardly war-monger-money-takers Like what the fuck.
Nothing you do in computing, NOTHING, is worth the damage you do to people, so fuck off with your weird "but the work is so important!" complex. Important for WHOM, bitch?!
"Helsing is a new type of defense company. We believe that software, in particular #AI, will be the key to protecting our #democracy. Our teams design technology products that transform the operational capabilities of both new and existing defense platforms, to deliver faster and more accurate decision-making at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels.
Helsing is a pan-European, multi-domestic company with national entities in Germany, the UK, and France. As a result, we can access the widest pool of European talent for technology infrastructure and capabilities. Our domain experience means we are attuned to the most difficult problems faced by our governments. Helsing has had a pretty exciting ride so far, growing from 4 to 200 employees (140 of which are on the engineering team) in the course of two years.
Helsing, like most companies that make extensive use of #Rust, is able to do so in large part due to the amazing (and often #volunteer-based) work of the Rust community. [...]
To the community: thank you, thank you, thank you. Not only have I personally gotten a lot of value from being part of and contributing to the Rust community, but I have also seen the extensive impact of all you do at scale at AWS and now at Helsing. Without you all, we would all still be writing high-performance, security-critical systems in C++ and Java, and paying the price."
About Dr. Robert Fink
Dr. Robert Fink is Helsing’s CTO and responsible for all aspects of technology and software development, including recruiting, platform architecture, engineering culture, and education. Prior to joining Helsing, Robert was a distinguished software engineer at #Palantir Technologies and the founding engineer and chief architect of Palantir’s Foundry Platform.
@rml "Rust Foundation Member Spotlight: [Redacted] is a new type of defense company. We believe that software, in particular #AI, will be the key to protecting our #democracy. [...] [The CTO] was a distinguished software engineer at #Palantir Technologies and the founding engineer and chief architect of Palantir’s Foundry Platform."
@lpwaterhouse@rml#RustFoundation is from AWS, Google, Huawei, Meta, and Microsoft. Bylaws make it very much representing the interests of corporations. Feels very different from the #Rust userbase I've met.