The two aspects my friend's perception of the Rust community are both a) rewriting existing projects in Rust for the sake of having a version written in Rust[1]

The two aspects my friend's perception of the Rust community are both a) rewriting existing projects in Rust for the sake of having a version written in Rust[1][2], and b) it seems a frequent trend on Hacker News to see comments about "why didn't you write it in Rust" or "how about porting it to Rust" on posts about projects and "should have written it in Rust" comments on posts about security bugs. As the parent to your comment points out, this is probably a small group in the community who comments often. As I could see from the way my score, on the post that started this discussion fluctuated, this is clearly a topic some are both sensitive about or like find humor in (or both!). EDIT: I didn't mean to derail the discussion of a fascinating code posting; but I assume the comment I responded to that spawned this tangent, "Have they considered rewriting it in rust?"[3], was a joke made about the other comments on HN to rewrite things in Rust. [1]: From a pedagogical standpoint, obviously this is a potentially good way of learning a language so if for learning and not pure calorie burn I personally don't see this as wasteful. [2]: <<possibly exaggeration warning>> I understand there is some motivations within (perhaps a small part) the Rust community to replace the world'S C-systems-code with more secure Rust code. [3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12049521 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12049521