Description: "With this ... guide, experienced systems programmers will learn how to successfully bridge the gap between performance and safety using Rust"--Back cover.
Brief description: Jim Blandy has been programming since 1981, and writing Free software since 1990. He has been the maintainer of GNU Emacs and GNU Guile, and a maintainer of GDB, the GNU Debugger. He is one of the original designers of the Subversion version control system. Jim now works for Mozilla on Firefox's web developer tools.