It's a bad reference, so I dismiss it. To be extreme, you may as well say the earth is flat because you met a bunch of people at a local gathering of the flatla

It's a bad reference, so I dismiss it. To be extreme, you may as well say the earth is flat because you met a bunch of people at a local gathering of the flatlander society who believe it to be true. Obviously people are going to be enthusiastic about rust if they're taking time from their weekends to go hang out with others to talk about it. It's just an irrelevant data point.