You’ll always easily find plenty of people that will say “that makes no sense”. But of people that worked in these sorts of fields, I imagine that, from the ver

You’ll always easily find plenty of people that will say “that makes no sense”. But of people that worked in these sorts of fields, I imagine that, from the very start, there would have been significantly more than average approval for its goals, even if you wouldn’t expect it to succeed (such endeavours normally don’t). The niche Rust was targeting from the very beginning was one that was known to be underserved, and known to be rather important.