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> The priorities I had while working on the language are broadly not the revealed priorities of the community that's developed around the language in the years
by pmontra 3y ago
> The priorities I had while working on the language are broadly not the revealed priorities of the community that's developed around the language in the years since
Isn't that a matter of self selection? A language which developed around those priorities would have a community sharing those priorities now.
The point is if that community would be as large as the current one, larger, smaller.
- layer8 3y agoThe fact that the community that formed trended in that way can be taken as an indication that those directions attracted more people than the original vision. Note how often Graydon was basically outvoted on design decisions. It would have been conceivable for the project to attract mostly people that fully shared Graydon’s vision, but that’s apparently not what happened.
- kryptiskt 3y agoIt's not really mentioned in the post, but one thing Rust had since fairly early on was a use case, it was used to build a browser engine. As I remember it from the time, the feedback from Servo development tended to pull Rust in a more performance-oriented direction.