KellerFuchs
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7 years ago @pmcoder Well, there is a large Rust community out there, and most of the time the zealots feel like they aren't actually part of it. In any case, it's strange and figuring out why it is happening would be interesting.
One thing I would point out, though, it that this sort of proselytism is fairly commonplace in the free software communities: Ask an Emacs question? Get told that clearly you should use NeoVim. Mention that you are learning Go? Clearly Javascript would be better, since it runs everywhere... (Note that those are random examples off the top of my head, and not meant to disparage specific projects) Commonplace, however, doesn't mean it should be acceptable: this kind of behaviour makes it very hard for newcomers to actually get help and learn what they are trying to learn, while teaching them that aggressive proselytism is the norm.
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tchaffee
dmerejkowsky
I think its lack of adoption. Other languages that take off do so because developers find it useful and some of the things you want to see rewritten because either the devs want to port or other devs want a project written in their language of choice with the hopes of forming a community. What I've seen of Rust though makes me think most find it too cumbersome and the zealots that want to push it (probably a vocal minority) don't have the chops to rewrite the projects they target on their own even if its a toy implementation. I think they fall in love with the language but the lack of love from others annoys them to the point of trying to force it.