You might have seen those obnoxious "you should rewrite it in Rust comments" here and there:

Nearly one year ago, on November 15th 2015, I released the 1.0 version of nom, the fast parser combinators library I wrote in Rust. A lot happened around that project, and I have been really happy to interact with nom users around the world.

To follow up on the small Twitter rant that got people to explain GPG and OTR to me for a whole day, I'll explain the ideas behind this.