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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 Ru

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.