Ashley Williams - How I Convinced the World's Largest Package Manager to Use Rust, and So Can You!

I made one of my favorite pull requests ever on December 17, 2016: rust-www/pulls/634: add npm to friends page On any given day, the npm registry, a repository of packages primarily for JavaScript and , serves around 350,000,000 package downloads. The npm services team is small and this once little service, the lifeblood of the modern web development workflow, is now a huge set of microservices- and starting in late 2016, it’s no longer just - it’s running production Rust. In this t