Subj : Re: evangelists? rust?
To   : Nightfox
From : Dr. What
Date : Thu Dec 04 2025 07:49:00

-=> 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 since I 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 is provably
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, try to prove that they are
right with facts and results.

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


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