[tasogare]

Frankly, Rust is not the example I would take about successful evanglization: the numerous Rewrite It In Rust (RIIC) posts, the ones asking on an inquisitional tone why the project haven't been written in rust, or those who changed the topic to rust in unrelated discussion (that's literally trolling) that is happening in a lot of threads here are really off-putting.

[raphlinus]

I have a "Rust Evangelism Strike Force" laptop sticker, but I will caution: the more aggressive evangelism stuff that you cite here is not coming from the core team or people who actually build the Rust ecosystem.

[unlinked_dll]

I mean my point was that it seemed to have worked. It's been awhile since I've seen RIIR posts or the dumb evangelism. More often I see comments like "this wouldn't have been a bug if you wrote it in Rust" which is usually accurate and engages compelling discussion.

[saagarjha]

> More often I see comments like "this wouldn't have been a bug if you wrote it in Rust" which is usually accurate and engages compelling discussion.

It's usually accurate, but it rarely spurs compelling discussion in my experience. Whether it's inertia or actual pigheadedness, smugly suggesting that they could have "just" rewritten their software in Rust and they wouldn't have their day ruined doesn't invite the best kind of discussion, considering that the people involved are either just coming out of the bad day or tend to underestimate the costs of switching.