[epoch1970]

> They aren't going after C++ gurus or C magicians but people who are new to systems programming.

If this actually is their strategy, is it being done voluntarily or out of necessity? I ask, because I've witnessed enough scepticism about Rust from C and C++ programmers. Rightly or wrongly, there are enough of them who don't appear to be receptive to Rust, and likely never will be. So the Rust community may never be able to appeal to these C and C++ programmers, even if they wanted to. The only option may be to appeal to the non-C and non-C++ programmers.

[pcwalton]

> I ask, because I've witnessed enough scepticism about Rust from C and C++ programmers.

I don't think there's a single language on the planet that hasn't had skeptics, especially at the beginning. Remember how skeptical everyone was of Python at first due to its significant whitespace?

Programmers are very tribal about their tools.

[oblio]

> Remember how skeptical everyone was of Python at first due to its significant whitespace?

A large group of programmers still hates Python for this reason, to this day. They've just moved on and are probably completely ignoring Python these days.

[ArkyBeagle]

Python has come a long way, but for domain reasons, the significant whitespace isn't my primary beef. Packaging is, because I haven't captured all the gnosis yet.