[oshea64bit]

This is a fascinating blog series. I've been dabbling in Rust lately and really appreciate how powerful and helpful the compiler is even to beginners.

> Due to recent changes at Mozilla my time working on the Rust compiler is drawing to a close.

This sort of statement makes me a bit worried though. I don't mean to echo what a lot of the community has said over the past month, but I really hope that development on Rust doesn't stagnate because of the layoffs.