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by kibwen 2824 days ago
The "Rust Evangelism Strike Force" is a dumb meme (but I repeat myself) that gets used sarcastically, and was originally coined by people who were themselves critical of Rust. If you have links to instances of people doing exactly as OP wrote, please paste them here; I am mod of /r/rust, where we have had a "No zealotry" rule ("Stay mindful of the fact that different technologies have different goals and exhibit fundamentally different tradeoffs in pursuit of those goals.") since long before cat-v.org concocted the RESF, and I am happy to rein people in if their heads get too big. :)

As to whether my above question is serious, the answer is yes, because truth be told I see more people complaining about Rust Evangelism than I see instances of evangelism in the first place, to the extent that I wonder if that itself has become a meme by now.

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> where we have had a "No zealotry" rule ("Stay mindful of the fact that different technologies have different goals and exhibit fundamentally different tradeoffs in pursuit of those goals.")

I've never wrote anywhere that you encourage that kind of behavior. There is a difference between encouraging and pretending that problem do not exist. Seems that you are just biased and what you are doing here is white washing a community you are part of.

> If you have links to instances of people doing exactly as OP wrote, please paste them here;

I would rather spend time with my family than searching whole HN and Reddit for obvious things that were mentioned here multiple times by multiple people but I've found couple of links fast (not for you, but for other readers) [1][2]. And this are only two examples that I've found fast. Those are examples of things that you surely have read and aware of. Another example is some Animats posts in some C++/Rust debate thread on HN in which he was describing his experience and technical details while criticizing Rust and was downvoted to hell.

Here you have another person writing same thing and dbaupp acknowledging that the problem exist [3].

This comments didn't come from vacuum and denying that problem exist will only make it worse.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5fyhjb/golangs...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17088181

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14178950