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That's kind of an uncharitable way to say, "Rust has a welcoming and beginner-friendly community". It's not like there's a marketing team buying Facebook ads.
by NationalPark 5y ago
That's kind of an uncharitable way to say, "Rust has a welcoming and beginner-friendly community". It's not like there's a marketing team buying Facebook ads.
- hu3 5y agoRust had Mozilla blog posting about it for a long time. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/07/shipping-rust-in-firefox/ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/07/shipping-rust-in-firefox/ Let's not pretend marketing is just paid Facebook/Google ads.
- Zababa 5y agoI think that's your vision of marketing. Marketing by word of mouth because you really like a product is still marketing, and the Rust community is really good at that. The Rust community realized early that if they wanted to succeed, they had to talk about Rust a lot, show good examples, be beginner friendly to avoid people picking it up and dropping it quikly. But that "marketing" is also things like a really good package manager, really good compiler errors, a really good VSCode extensions. Many communities don't have this (especially the new ones) and this makes developing in Rust more of a joy than in let's say OCaml or even JS.
- mhh__ 5y agoI don't know if I'd say beginner (an initio) friendly but we have some really clever people on our forums who have a lot of time for new people. There will be a book on dlang.org soon, that's the one thing I think we're lacking at the moment.