# Graydon Hoare Graydon Hoare (born 1979, based in Vancouver, Canada) is a software engineer and self-described "language engineer by trade." He is best known as the **original creator of the [[Rust]] programming language**, which he started as a hobby project in 2006 while at Mozilla. Mozilla sponsored it in 2009; he stepped down as technical lead in 2013 after burnout, before Rust 1.0 shipped in 2015 under community governance. His career centers on compilers and developer tools — he has worked at Red Hat, Mozilla, Apple (on Swift), and Stellar, and touched projects like GCC, Clang, and TraceMonkey. He remains modest about Rust's success ("we got lucky"), crediting the ecosystem, community, and prior investment in LLVM. He is also the author of the essay [[Always bet on text]], arguing that text is the most powerful, durable, and flexible communication technology ever created. ## Quotes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[Graydon Hoare]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Books <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/book AND [[Graydon Hoare]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Related - [[Always bet on text]] - [[Rust]] ## References - Website / blog: https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/ - GitHub: https://github.com/graydon - Wikipedia (Rust): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(programming_language) - Uses This interview: https://usesthis.com/interviews/graydon.hoare/