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I have to agree on this. I was surprised to see that a majority of the Rust community actually comes from some web-development domains. Especially when comparin

• kbenson 11y ago
  An alternative interpretation might be that rust has particular appeal to those that primarily use dynamic languages. It's probably both, but I will say that as someone that's busy getting stuff done in Perl[1] every day, rust looks appealing, and a lot of that has to do with guarantees. If I'm going to give up the convenience of Perl for a lower level language[2], I need to be sold. Rust's promise of provably correct memory management sounds really good in that situation. 1: I've used lower level languages, but for nothing large, and I haven't started a project in C, C++ or even Java in over a decade, and was never very enamored.
• steveklabnik 11y ago
  As someone who fits this mould, for me, it's not exactly that. Yes, in my professional life, people know me for my Rails work, but I learned C at a very young age, and while my systems-level stuff was a bit out of practice, for me, Rust is a _return_ to the kind of stuff I used to do earlier in life. Oh, and I'm not sure "majority" is really true. Yeah, maybe some of us have disproportionate impact, but a very large number of people in Rust-land really know their systems stuff. I am humbled to work alongside such talented people.