Rust 1.0 was made with…

1 stable release

2 ‘Rust’ compilers

3 bots on Github

4 years of bootstrapping ( 7b95b5c is the innocuous commit of the first snapshot)

5 years of git

~9 years total

12 0.x releases

~53 irc channels starting with #rust on irc.mozilla.org

80 TWiRs

156 people with project-flair on /r/rust

302 comments on the most-commented pull request, #12081

312 compiler snapshots for bootstrapping

363 minutes spent hitting Github’s API to get the comment numbers here

365 revisions to the Wikipedia page

406 comments on the most (or maybe, least) popular RFC, #517

632 tweets from @rustlang

~656 gigabytes of Rust downloaded from static.rust-lang.org on May 15 and 16

905 users on users.rust-lang.org

1,015 contributors (according to AUTHORS.txt )

1,034 contributors (according to git shortlog -sn )

1,286 users on internals.rust-lang.org

2,076 crates on crates.io

~2,200 forks of rust-lang/rust

5,552 *.rs files

6,262 merge commits from @bors

~7,000 merged pull requests to rust-lang/rust (according to Github)

10,246 successful cargo publish s to crates.io

10,500 subscribers to /r/rust

~11,000 stars on Github

11,669 emails sent to the (now unused) rust-dev mailing list

12,012 views of the release announcement on release day from Hacker News, the largest single source

~16,078 comments on RFCs

~18,518 comments on commits

22,293 words in the largest single page of documentation, the reference (according wc -w )

22,693 views of rust-lang/rust on release day

41,373 commits

45,710 total pageviews of the release announcement on release day

~50,936 comments on issues in rust-lang/rust

58,163 backticks `

61,563 lines of not-Rust (according to cloc , not including git submodules)

~65,665 comments on pull requests (we’re a talkative bunch!)

67,629 words in the Book

~106,000 results returned by a Google search for ‘rustlang’

169,525 lines of Rust in src/test

182,267 lines added/removed by the single largest commit 5f066e0 (according to git show --shortstat )

332,721 lines of Rust in the libraries & compiler

~1,000,000 messages sent to #rust over the year before the release (according to my IRC logs)

2,070,539 downloads from crates.io

3,575,149 total deleted lines over the whole history (according to git log --shortstat )

4,263,472 total added lines

27,466,060 bytes of files in the 1.0 source tree