Board:   [DoveNet] Programming
Subject: Re: evangelists? rust?
From:    Dr. What
Date:    Thu Dec 04, 2025 07:49

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-=> Nightfox wrote to Night_Spider <=-

 Ni> However, the
 Ni> recent threads about Rust is the first time I've heard about any
 Ni> conspiracy theories about tech evangelists wanting to control things by
 Ni> recommending Rust.

The problem with conspiracy theories today is that most end up being proven
true.

But as to why they are pushing Rust, I don't know sinceI can't read minds.

What I do know is that:
1. Rust itself isn't ready for prime time.
2. The Rust rewrites are incomplete, unproven and buggy.  Example: The
CloudFlare outage recently.
3. And every reason the Rusties are giving for why they want this isprovably
false.

 Ni> I always thought tech evangelists simply liked
 Ni> certain technologies (and usually there are good reasons to like some
 Ni> technologies, as they do have their own advantages).

Evangelists encourage, demonstrate, and overall, tryto prove that they are
right with facts and results.

The Rusties aren't "evangelists".  They are something else.


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