Maybe to some extent it's a similar situation to git. Everybody knew CVS and SVN kinda sucked, there were lots of competitors, but they all remained esoteric un

Maybe to some extent it's a similar situation to git. Everybody knew CVS and SVN kinda sucked, there were lots of competitors, but they all remained esoteric until git, which a) had immediate "mainstream" adoption due to the linux kernel and b) was really good. Rust got early adoption due to Mozilla and.. is also really good.