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> but the spread of "write everything in Rust" or "Rust is the salvation of software" is crazy. Sorry to burn down your straw man, but the overwhelming majorit

> but the spread of "write everything in Rust" or "Rust is the salvation of software" is crazy. Sorry to burn down your straw man, but the overwhelming majority of "Rust evangelism" points out that Rust is not always the right tool for the job. The intersection between people who write both Rust and Go (for instance) is substantial, and people in the Rust community (more precisely: communities) go to great lengths to point out that it's not an either / or proposition. Most of the RIIR! hyperbole is something that happens to the Rust community, not on its behalf. > As programmers we do tend to seek the one true language which doesn't really exist. This seems somewhat at odds with your denunciation, mere sentences ago.

aaron-lebo 9y ago
If we're talking about strawmen, not sure how you differentiate the one true community from the false community. stevekalabnik and pcwalton show up in every Rust discussion for a reason (no knock on them), the Rust evangelism strike force meme is real, for a reason, this post called "Rust is Software's Salvation" got 172 upvotes and 176 comments for a reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13280150 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13280150 The marketing is real, nuance is good.
- urschrei 9y ago
  > If we're talking about strawmen, not sure how you differentiate the one true community from the false community. I pointed out that there were multiple communities before you did. > stevekalabnik and pcwalton show up in every Rust discussion for a reason I agree completely; their calm, constructive engagement with the HN community has been a tremendous help to Rust's adoption.
- sgift 9y ago
  > the Rust evangelism strike force meme is real The meme is more real than the strike force itself. For every once I've seen it appear I've hundred times seen that tired meme appear.

aaron-lebo 9y ago

If we're talking about strawmen, not sure how you differentiate the one true community from the false community. stevekalabnik and pcwalton show up in every Rust discussion for a reason (no knock on them), the Rust evangelism strike force meme is real, for a reason, this post called "Rust is Software's Salvation" got 172 upvotes and 176 comments for a reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13280150 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13280150 The marketing is real, nuance is good.

urschrei 9y ago
> If we're talking about strawmen, not sure how you differentiate the one true community from the false community. I pointed out that there were multiple communities before you did. > stevekalabnik and pcwalton show up in every Rust discussion for a reason I agree completely; their calm, constructive engagement with the HN community has been a tremendous help to Rust's adoption.
sgift 9y ago
> the Rust evangelism strike force meme is real The meme is more real than the strike force itself. For every once I've seen it appear I've hundred times seen that tired meme appear.