[macintux]

Rust wasn’t trying to become the standard web programming language.

[burntsushi]

I didn't realize that was a necessary precondition in your evaluation of what makes something "crazy." Sorry.

[macintux]

Sorry, early morning. I should have been more verbose.

Rust has a different target problem space, a different standard library philosophy, a package management system, and exists in a world where adding external dependencies is trivial.

Java didn’t have any of those excuses.

[oblio]

Well, Java turned out quite all right on that front :-)