This is the classic problem described in The Mythical Man-Month. Recruiting more programmers to accelerate shipping your dev version just makes it later. edit:

This is the classic problem described in The Mythical Man-Month. Recruiting more programmers to accelerate shipping your dev version just makes it later. edit: also it's not clear how accelerating Rust use (meaning rewrites) would help market share in the short or medium term. it seems more like a necessary investment for the long term survivability and has to be paced wisely, like it has so far.