cosmicuniverse7•

One question?

Is Alex bot? Sometime, he beats bors :D

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StyMaar•

Sort of, he's a robot send back from the future to save the past (by rewriting it in Rust).

(And … I can't find the source for this meme, which kind of ruins it :/)

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JoshTriplettrust · lang · libs · cargo•

Quote from Graydon Hoare: "Technology from the past come to save the future from itself"

One source (don't know if it's the original source): http://venge.net/graydon/talks/intro-talk-2.pdf

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StyMaar•

I think this was the origin of it, but one day (circa 2017 or something) someone on reddit posted a Terminator theory about Alex Crichton which I found hilarious at the time but I can't find anymore :/.

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Eh2406•

If it is any comfort, I remember this too.

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eminence•

A nice bit of history, thanks for taking the time to document this.

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leopardspotte•

Thank you for highlighting names.

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