[veidr]

I did not read TFA, but I think the reason people go from Ruby on Rails to Rust is that various people they trust went that route.

For instance, Yehuda Katz and Steve Klabnik were both extremely helpful and widely admired figures in the Ruby/Rails community. Then they both joined the Rust core team.

That alone is enough to attract the interest of a lot of rails people I think, by giving Rust relatively huge exposure among Ruby people.

Then you have the fact that (probably due to the above) Rust became a common choice for outsourcing performance-critical parts of Rails apps.

Once you start doing that, it’s kind of natural to start thinking hmmm what if I wasn’t even doing Rails..