Greg Slepak

Ah, I see initially this was [written in Python in 2010](https://github.com/DeDiS/Dissent/commit/11072fd0d69d0cb7c5018a2c796310f39cb22c38), but then in [early 2011](https://github.com/DeDiS/Dissent/commit/d8d1bbd5e561f2cdf429240a0822d55e96a9194b) a C++ implementation was added. C'est la vie. An example of a great company...

> I would not go so far to call C++ a "broken" and "insecure" language. Perfectly fine to have a difference of opinion on the term "broken", but "insecure" is...

Some more useful CoffeeScript/JavaScript related links (for static typing): - [TypedCoffeeScript](https://github.com/mizchi/TypedCoffeeScript) (wish this would get more love) - Facebook's [Flow](http://flowtype.org/) (would be awesome if this could be integrated with coffeescript!)

@bford That's fantastic news! :smile: :+1: Very very cool, thank you, and I can't wait to spread the news when it's announced. Am watching the repo.

BTW, curious coincidence, right after posting that I checked HackerNews and guess what's #1 there right now [with 680 upvotes](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863451)? [Announcing Rust 1.0 Alpha](http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/01/09/Rust-1.0-alpha.html) :smile:

Having had some more time to explore the tradeoffs between Rust and Go, I think Go would actually be a great choice. FYI here are [Go QT bindings](https://github.com/visualfc/goqt) for doing...