Bryan Hurust-but-lisp
152 starsA transpiler that lets you write Rust as Lisp. S-expressions go in, real compiled Rust comes out. It is the least useful thing here and by far the most widely shared.
a few turns along the way.
How I got here.
Music, software, and learning to build with other people.
- 2017
First, the piano.
I started playing piano. Music became a lasting part of my life, alongside the things I would learn to build.
- 2018
Then, another kind of ensemble.
I picked up trombone, later playing in concert and jazz bands as well as performing solo on piano.
- 2018–19
My first lines of code.
I started programming in fourth grade.
- 2020
Getting serious about programming.
I had been programming since fourth grade, but 2020 was when I began taking it seriously.
- 2022–23
Building for my school.
I joined VC Assist in eighth grade and later became CEO. At the student-run nonprofit, I built the full-stack platform for my school’s digital infrastructure and later led a frontend rewrite.
- 2023
Practice started to show.
Music and competitive programming gave me two very different ways to work through a difficult problem.
- 3rd place · USOMC Intermediate Baroque
- Passed USACO Bronze · qualified for Silver
- 2023–24
Starting a place to build together.
In freshman year, I founded the VCSD software development club. I built its website, wrote the curriculum, and made restlock-holmes to teach beginners about REST APIs.
- 2024
Code met the real world.
On FRC Team 3256, software had to work on a physical robot, under a deadline, with a team depending on it. My work across the 2024–2025 seasons included the elevator subsystem, driver simulation, anti-tip logic, and scouting tools.
With FRC Team 3256 · team awards
- 2025
Another season. A stronger team.
Robotics taught me to care about the parts around the code: testing, controls, structured logs, and helping other people use what I built.
- 2025
Still making music.
Concert and jazz bands kept collaboration in my life away from the keyboard, too.
- 2nd place · Folsom Jazz Festival
- 2025
An entry became a product.
My Congressional App Challenge entry grew into Billion. I kept building beyond the competition, working on a way to make government decisions easier to follow.
The story behind Billion ↗- 3rd place · Congressional App Challenge, CA-19
- 2026
A different kind of challenge.
picoCTF put my problem-solving to work across cybersecurity: reverse engineering, cryptography, binary exploitation, and web security.
- picoCTF · 174th of 8,747
- Today
Focused on Billion.
My biggest focus right now is Billion: making government decisions easier to follow. I’m continuing to build the app, bringing bills, court rulings, and executive orders into one place.
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