Why the developers who use Rust love it so much

Re:Why the developers who use Rust love it so much by jkachmar on Sunday June 07, 2020 @07:38PM (#23452074)

Steve Klabnik and Sean Griffin were both early adopters of Rust (and are now fairly visible members of the community), and I believe that helped sow the seeds of the language in parts of the Ruby community [0].

I think Rust managed to also cultivate a community that was very much like Ruby’s [1], which brought people over.

[0] cf. Klabnik’s “Rust for Rubyists”

[1] mostly being very “people-oriented” in terms of inclusivity and documentation, as well as putting effort into ensuring that the language and its tooling provide a lot of “developer happiness”

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Re:Why the developers who use Rust love it so much by steveklabnik on Sunday June 07, 2020 @08:14PM (#23452293)

Don't forget Yehuda Katz.

Fundamentally, I don't think it should be surprising that someone who loves Ruby would look at Rust. That it's very different is the entire point! Why learn something that's extremely similar, that won't expand what you can do very much?

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