Rust Dev Pauses Editor for New Language
Summary
These specialized infrastructure advancements, driven by personal exploration, show Rust’s growing impact across both low-level systems and developer tooling philosophy.
- Pure Rust Database Stoolap achieves full ACID compliance and supports MVCC transactions for embedded use cases 2.
- Software Naming Drift Richard Stallman criticized the trend of developers using names lacking obvious meaning in late 2022 3.
- Personal Project Focus A developer paused work on the Boo code editor to concentrate efforts on developing a new programming language 1.
- 3 - Total articles reviewed covering Rust, databases, and naming conventions [1, 2, 3].
- Dec 2022 - Date of Richard Stallman’s criticism regarding poor software naming trends 3.
- 11 Dec 2025 - Date the developer decided to pause the Boo editor project 1.
Key Moments
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Stoolap: High-performance embedded SQL database in pure Rust
— Article [2] -
Craft software that makes people feel something.
— Article [1] -
Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools.
— Article [3]
Different Perspectives
Supporting View
The push for deeply specialized tools, like ACID-compliant embedded databases, validates focused engineering efforts.
Sources:
[2]