It just blows my mind the way Rust comes together out of chaos, the
way every contributor who touches it leaves a little bit of themselves
in Rust. And the influence of Guillaume Gomez (aka imperio, aka
@GuillaumeGomez) is evident everywhere you look in Rust.
Guillaume appeared on the Rust scene in 2015 like a whirlwind,
identifying an area of the project in need of help - documentation -
and dedicating himself to raising the quality levels in every way he
could. That's how you make a niche for yourself in a project, and
today Guillaume is a member of the docs team, and recognized as
one of the prime motivators of Rust documentation
improvements.
He has done so much, I'm going to miss a lot of it. But here goes.
He has made 600 commits to rust-lang/rust. By GitHub's
accounting that puts him at #15 on the contributor list.
In his time on Rust he has maintained This Week in Rust
Docs, a thankless but important service to the Rust community.
He has been the main driver behind the system of extended
diagnostics in the compiler, the campaign to improve the error
handling ui, and for the improved handling of error codes
generally.
He is one of the few people who has been driven to make significant
improvements to rustdoc over the years, often overcoming major
technical and social challenges to do so, such as in this excellent
improvement to the debuggability of rustdoc test output, this
improvement to rustdoc's customization, the replacement of
hoedown with pulldown-cmark, and teaching rustdoc about
"compile-fail".
But that's not all.
Guillaume is also the major force behind gtk-rs, the Rust bindings
to GTK+. And with his GTK+ expertise, he has acted as liason between the
Rust communities and the GNOME communities, graciously attending a
hackfest earlier this year to help advance the state of GNOME/Rust
integration.
Seriously, Guillaume is a tireless Rust advocate, and the advancements
he has made to Rust are pretty stunning. Buy this man a beer.
