> but I don't think it's been predictive of someone's political identity before? This is a pretty astounding claim. On which data did you base that conclusion?

> but I don't think it's been predictive of someone's political identity before? This is a pretty astounding claim. On which data did you base that conclusion? Because if it is purely anecdotal, you might consider that this is a bit like with Apple fanboys. Apple generally makes good products. Most people who use their stuff don't even talk about it, but those who do talk about it tend to have strong opinions that extend the quality of Apples products themselves. But these opinions are not even remotely representative of the broad majority of Apple users. Rust similarily lends itself to fanboyism, because the language has a strong narrative going for it, that is part of its success. The narrative isn't even a bad one: create a programming language that makes certain common classes of mistakes impossible and others much harder. Like every topic with strong narrative this will draw in a certain amount of people who will strongly defend said narrative, but those aren't necessarily the manority of the people who use the language. So unless you made a proper poll that tries to select for a broad set of Rust users instead of basing your judgment on a loud online minority I wouldn't be confident in the result. I with "identity based bent" you mean they are inclusive and have strong community rules, it might just be that this is normal where the Rust users are from. Last time I checked Rust was very popular in European countries and over here these kind of rules are pretty off the shelve standard. But please tell me this isn't about you calling them "woke" and confusing basic human dignity with politics.