So, these 3 months were hell of a learning and fun.
- did alot of dsa
- finally deep dived into web3
- graduated from turbin3 builder's cohort
- building a DePIN project with turbin3 folks
- got an on campus offer (will not take it)
- met crazy devs in these months
Fuck it now, for the next fucking three months i am locking all in this time gonna work a lot, mind and body both. If i lack this time, consider myself gay then. GMI this time now.
Solana's Alpenglow consensus is live on a community cluster.
The protocol that promises sub-second finality is being stress-tested in the wild right now.
Here's how it actually works.🧵
🦀 Rust: from a side project to the world’s most-loved programming language
(a story every Rust dev should know)
Vancouver. Graydon Hoare, a 29-year-old Mozilla engineer, comes home to find his apartment building's elevator crashed. He lives on the 21st floor.
As he climbs the stairs, he gets frustrated, yet he gets to work. That night, Hoare opens his laptop and starts designing a new programming language. One that could write fast, compact code without the memory bugs that make embedded systems like elevators crash in the first place. He named it Rust, after a group of fungi known for being almost absurdly resilient. Over-engineered for survival.
It's now one of the most important languages in the world.
@Microsoft estimates 70% of its security vulnerabilities come from memory errors in C and C++.
To understand why Rust matters, you need to understand the tradeoff that existed before it.
For decades, if you were building low-level software, you used C or C++. It was fast, compact, close to the hardware, but the downside was brutal: developers had to manage memory manually. Miss a step and you get crashes, vulnerabilities, exploits. The problem is that at scale, with millions of lines of code, even the most careful engineers slip.
In the 90s, Java, JavaScript, and Python emerged with a different answer: garbage collectors, automatic memory cleanup, and no manual management.
But the tradeoff flipped: slower performance, heavier memory usage, no good fit for bare-metal environments. So the field split into two camps. Fast-but-dangerous or safe-but-sluggish.
Hoare wanted a third option.
Rust's compiler will flat-out refuse to build your program if you break its memory rules.
Rust's ownership system means every piece of data can only be referenced by one variable at a time. Violate the rules, and it won't compile.
By 2013, the @rustlang team had stripped garbage collection out entirely. The language got leaner, faster, closer to the metal. Comparable to C and C++ in raw performance, but with safety baked into the architecture itself.
The numbers speak for themselves:
> @discord rewrote a core service from Go to Rust. It now runs 10x faster
> @Dropbox rebuilt its sync engine in Rust because Python couldn't handle billions of files at scale
> @Cloudflare routes more than 20% of all internet traffic through Rust-written systems
The efficiency gains caught everyone's attention:
> Rust programs use roughly half the electricity of equivalent @java code
> Microsoft publicly committed to writing new systems code in Rust, with C and C++ fading out
> The US government is now actively pushing Rust adoption as a national security measure
Rust has been voted the most "loved" language in @StackOverflow's global developer survey for seven years straight.
There are now 2.8 million Rust developers worldwide. The language that started as a side project is now embedded in some of the most critical infrastructure on the internet.
Graydon Hoare stepped away in 2013. He'd started something, handed it to a team capable of carrying it forward, and watched it outgrow anything he could have built alone.
🫡🦀
Source: @MIT Technology Review - https://t.co/uRpaW07fwy
Week 2 of C4 is done.
That means Module 1 is almost behind us. One more week left, and the first part of the bootcamp is complete.
This week, the cohort went through:
• Office hours with @danielkcumming
• Lecture 3. Exclusive access and memory safety
• Lecture 4. More on ownership and memory safety
The pace has picked up, and so has the level of focus.
You can already feel the cohort settling into the rhythm, asking better questions, and getting more comfortable with the parts of Rust that matter for security.
One last stretch ahead before we close Module 1.
A quick glance into C4 week 1.
The long-awaited start of the Rektoff <> Solana Rust Enterprise Security Bootcamp Cohort 4 officially kicked off on March 30, when 125 students joined our Townhall, met their first mentor @danielkcumming, and got a clear view of what comes next.
This week, we covered:
• Lecture 1. Memory: static, stack, heap, and more
• Lecture 2. Memory errors and unsafe Rust
The cohort has already settled into Slack, started getting to know each other, and is ready to grind through 6 weeks of intense Rust security training.
Strong start, strong energy, and a lot more ahead 🦀
(attaching a few shots from our students’ setups, so you could catch the vibe)
Today, we kicked off the 4th cohort with our Townhall.
125 students joined the call to meet @danielkcumming, who will be leading them through the next 3 weeks of module 1, focused on Rust internals.
This is where the foundation gets built.
Welcome on board, guys!
Its been 1 complete month locked with @solanaturbine
|| With high power meets ,, Task that keeps you busy whole day.|| Mentors like @andrescorreia , @shrinathx .. always supportive .
It was not easy but keep going was the only option ..
always fun to share meet with awesome Devs :
@avhidotsol@punk_onchain@parthcodess @iaydv @GuptaNamay@e_backhus@inspiration_gx@Lujadev@warriorofsol
..
More then anything I enjoyed
Enjoyed::{reading docs, writing rust , optimising CU's , sharing updates , creating program , testing them
};
My work of 1 month : https://t.co/ZU8HkhxEJZ
Getting job in web3 is hard but its only possible with patients and keep going not matter what.
with all test in my surrounding its always been a push to keep my pace going on.
Although it was tough time quite a while multiple campus rejections , no validation ,unemployment in 4th year , thought of changing domain, switching tech/nontech. nothing worked.
but to keep trying is what I learned from looking around.
A Big W to :@japarjam@kirat_tw@solana_devs
for supporting and backing @solana this gives mind relief and eliminates any 2nd thoughts what so ever it is.
At last : Tag the people in this space Happy to connect with all and learn from them.
keep an eye on my channel something Cooking : https://t.co/93nKmVpppZ
Its time to get into track and improve dev and social skills ..