> I mean, I personally think Rust is cool and all that, but come on, who does that?
Some people have an LDS complex (they've found their messiah and want to spread the word). Apparently there's also people who've decided that over-the-top inane "evangelisation" was a good troll and way to turn people off. A significant number of PL threads on /r/programming have a comment attempting this sort of shit-stirring.
> Some people have an LDS complex (they've found their messiah and want to spread the word).
Or, some craftspeople/artisans prefer tools that are a joy for them to use instead of just a means to an end, and have the luxury to choose what they work with.
He's referring to people who open issues on random projects asking the project owners to RIIR. These people often don't create much on their own, so they're pushing a "I can't help this cool project because it's not using a language like Rust that would make me capable of contributing, if they rewrote it in Rust then they'd have the reward of my presence in their codebase" when in reality language choice is a small hill to climb
I was recently having someone do this on a web project of mine that's written entirely in ES6 Javascript
Some people have an LDS complex (they've found their messiah and want to spread the word). Apparently there's also people who've decided that over-the-top inane "evangelisation" was a good troll and way to turn people off. A significant number of PL threads on /r/programming have a comment attempting this sort of shit-stirring.