[mwcampbell]

I think there's actually a serious point here. As is so often the case, we should be unifying our efforts to solve common, pressing problems, not fragmenting our efforts over things that matter far less. Specifically, I think those of us that care about reliability and efficiency should unite behind Rust to provide a compelling replacement for C and C++ on the one hand, and (for some applications) higher-level but less efficient languages on the other. Rust is certainly not perfect, but if we succeed at making it a popular language with great libraries covering many application domains, it'll be better than what we have now.

[mattgreenrocks]

I’d be inclined to agree with you but the same sentiment was expressed in the pre-Rust world, and the world is much better with Rust in it now.