# Rust team alumni **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [July 30, 2016, 12:45am UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/rust-team-alumni/3784 "2016-07-30T00:45:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/internals.rust-lang.org/brson/32/5197_2.png) [@brson](https://internals.rust-lang.org/u/brson)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 12:45am UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/rust-team-alumni/3784/1 "2016-07-30T00:45:55Z")
Hi there. As the Rust machine barrels ever-onward, contributors arrive, make their mark, and inevitably depart. Today I want to tell you about two people who have made a massive impact on Rust, and who are stepping down from their roles on the Rust team. Huon Wilson and Alexis Beingessner are now [Rust team alumni](https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/team.html#Rust-team-alumni). Huon Wilson came to Rust _all the way back in 2012_. Damn, has it been that long? In the time since he’s done all kinds of amazing things: organized community events in Australia, written knowledgeable and influential blog posts about Rust, joined Mozilla as a summer intern, became one of the initial members of the core team, influenced the direction of Rust’s math support and random number generation, optimized the standard library, and many other important things that I can’t remember or comprehend. Alexis Beingessner came to Rust like a whirlwind, and in his wake left a trail of powerful collections libraries and hilarious (but fantastically informative) documentation (([1](https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/nomicon/)) ([2](http://cglab.ca/~abeinges/blah/too-many-lists/book/)) ([3](https://ollie27.github.io/rust_doc_test/std/collections/index.html)) ([4](http://cglab.ca/~abeinges/blah/everyone-poops/))). During his internship with Mozilla he helped clarify how to write safe abstractions from unsafe code, and as a member of the libs team he has been instrumental in defining the core abstractions used by all Rustaceans, as well as the conventions that define quality Rust libraries. They live on in our hearts, and in our IRC channels. ---
**Author:** ![Gankra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/internals.rust-lang.org/gankra/32/6002_2.png) [@Gankra](https://internals.rust-lang.org/u/Gankra)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 1:09am UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/rust-team-alumni/3784/2 "2016-07-30T01:09:19Z")
Later Chumps! [![](http://cglab.ca/~abeinges/misc/tc-archive/500gankster.jpg) ](http://cglab.ca/~abeinges/misc/tc-archive/500gankster.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![nikomatsakis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/internals.rust-lang.org/nikomatsakis/32/5410_2.png) [@nikomatsakis](https://internals.rust-lang.org/u/nikomatsakis)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 1:15am UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/rust-team-alumni/3784/3 "2016-07-30T01:15:59Z")
Don’t be strangers y’all ❤ ---
**Author:** ![StefanoD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/internals.rust-lang.org/stefanod/32/2569_2.png) [@StefanoD](https://internals.rust-lang.org/u/StefanoD)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 7:19am UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/rust-team-alumni/3784/4 "2016-07-30T07:19:34Z")
Why are they going? ---
**Author:** ![alilleybrinker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/internals.rust-lang.org/alilleybrinker/32/11576_2.png) [@alilleybrinker](https://internals.rust-lang.org/u/alilleybrinker)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 4:14pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/rust-team-alumni/3784/5 "2016-07-30T16:14:50Z")
Thanks for all the wonderful work! Hope things go great for you all post-Rust-team! ---
**Author:** ![nrc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/internals.rust-lang.org/nrc/32/126_2.png) [@nrc](https://internals.rust-lang.org/u/nrc)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2016, 10:48pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/rust-team-alumni/3784/6 "2016-07-31T22:48:30Z")
Thank you @huon and @Gankra, you both did amazing work! > Why are they going? They got jobs that prevent them contributing. ---
**Author:** ![huon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/internals.rust-lang.org/huon/32/3698_2.png) [@huon](https://internals.rust-lang.org/u/huon)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 4:08pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/rust-team-alumni/3784/7 "2016-08-01T16:08:19Z")
Thanks everyone, I wish I could still be involved more actively! ---
**Author:** ![cuviper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/internals.rust-lang.org/cuviper/32/1897_2.png) [@cuviper](https://internals.rust-lang.org/u/cuviper)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 4:44pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/rust-team-alumni/3784/8 "2016-08-01T16:44:06Z")
Good luck to both! Do either of you have crates that need co-maintainers or an outright hand-off? ---
**Author:** ![eminence](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/internals.rust-lang.org/eminence/32/4018_2.png) [@eminence](https://internals.rust-lang.org/u/eminence)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 10:33pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/rust-team-alumni/3784/9 "2016-08-01T22:33:06Z")
Did they get alumni hats? I feel like they should get hats 🎩 ---
**Author:** ![matklad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/internals.rust-lang.org/matklad/32/12266_2.png) [@matklad](https://internals.rust-lang.org/u/matklad)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 9:18pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/rust-team-alumni/3784/10 "2016-08-06T21:18:40Z")
@huon, perhaps simple parallel could use some help? It unfortunately does not work with rust 1.10 😢 Thanks a lot for this crate! It was my first experience with parallelism in Rust 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LilianMoraru](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/internals.rust-lang.org/lilianmoraru/32/1661_2.png) [@LilianMoraru](https://internals.rust-lang.org/u/LilianMoraru)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2017, 5:19pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/rust-team-alumni/3784/11 "2017-07-08T17:19:09Z")
I asked myself a few times why @huon disappeared from the community(I saw that he is employed at Apple and pushes commits to Swift), this explains it: > [@nrc](#): > > They got jobs that prevent them contributing. Still makes me sad that passionate and active people like @huon, @reem, etc... don't contribute to the community any more 😢 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/internals.rust-lang.org/system/32/14092_2.png) [@system](https://internals.rust-lang.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 8:26am UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/rust-team-alumni/3784/12 "2019-03-25T08:26:33Z")
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