>>> I follow a lot of prominent people in Rust ... I'm not sure these people are even building anything, they seem to be "snacking" on the language only. - Touche
>> This is obviously false. How do you square that with all the Rust code we've shipped in Firefox, for example? I build things in Rust every day. - pcwalton
> I didn't state that no one builds anything in Rust so I have no need to square it. - Touche
Touche!
You are technically correct I suppose. You didn't state no one builds anything, but arousing suspicion that "a lot" of prominent Rust people aren't building anything and are just "snacking" on the language is pretty pointed rhetoric with an obvious purpose.
You could start up a Programming Language tabloid with a headline like:
EXPOSED: PROMINENT RUST PROGRAMMERS CAN'T EVEN WRITE IN RUST!
And really that's all before analyzing the line of logic of "people tweeting only about interesting language features and not their personal projects, public work projects, or private work projects implies they might just not be building anything at all" which seems pretty flimsy at best.
A lot of prominent Rust people, in fact, aren't using it in production. The Rust community is large and not everyone works for Mozilla or Cloudflare. I'm not going to call these people out by name because that would be a mean and pointless thing to do. I'll just point at that the community size to known production-uses ratio is not encouraging, to me at least.
>> This is obviously false. How do you square that with all the Rust code we've shipped in Firefox, for example? I build things in Rust every day. - pcwalton
> I didn't state that no one builds anything in Rust so I have no need to square it. - Touche
Touche!
You are technically correct I suppose. You didn't state no one builds anything, but arousing suspicion that "a lot" of prominent Rust people aren't building anything and are just "snacking" on the language is pretty pointed rhetoric with an obvious purpose.
You could start up a Programming Language tabloid with a headline like:
EXPOSED: PROMINENT RUST PROGRAMMERS CAN'T EVEN WRITE IN RUST!
And really that's all before analyzing the line of logic of "people tweeting only about interesting language features and not their personal projects, public work projects, or private work projects implies they might just not be building anything at all" which seems pretty flimsy at best.