Simon Willison’s Weblog

30th October 2017 - Link Blog

Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity. TIL Rust is used “on hundreds of millions of desktops via Dropbox”. And Rust developers are called Rustaceans.

Posted 30th October 2017 at 4:45 am

Recent articles

Meta's new model is Muse Spark, and meta.ai chat has some interesting tools - 8th April 2026
Anthropic's Project Glasswing - restricting Claude Mythos to security researchers - sounds necessary to me - 7th April 2026
The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering - 3rd April 2026

This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 30th October 2017.

dropbox 10 rust 106

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe