Libra / Rust / Congress

[Yandros]

Rust discussed in US congress

I had this running in the background and I perked up when they started talking about Rust. The Financial Services Committee was discussing Libra and then Congressman Riggleman (5th District of Virginia) had this to say [my transcription, excuse any errors]: 3:42:46 I was really surprised by the Rust language as it was in the background. Why was the rust lang chosen as the implementation for libra and do you believe right now from what you've seen it's mature enough to handle the security ch…