As Graydon Hoare notes in the comments on GitHub this wasn't the first repo so the real history goes back even further. He's also shared a "prehistory" repo [1] which is interesting to browse. The first commit [2] in _that_ repo is from 2008 but Graydon mentions starting work back in 2006.<p>Anyway in a sense this repo represents Rust in the real world rather than in gestation, so seems apt to call it the birthday.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/graydon/rust-prehistory" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/graydon/rust-prehistory</a><p>[2] <a href="https://github.com/graydon/rust-prehistory/commit/1969e085e3d0e55eafa12e1d866136913627debb" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/graydon/rust-prehistory/commit/1969e085e3...</a>