> Doug and I were counseled to know our “opponent” (Go) inside and out
> Rust Evangelism Strike Force
I know these are in quotes or meant as a joke, but it still is very off-putting to me. It's a team of 40 engineers and they have different subgroups of people coordinating essentially political efforts to advocate for programming languages. I would not like to work at a company like that.
What is with Rust and this uniquely fanatical evangelism? For me the biggest reason for not using it is the rabidness of its advocates. While they state technical reasons it seems the reasons are not technical in nature, which leads to my gut reaction of not taking them seriously.
As someone relatively new to both Go and Rust, I definitely feel the same way. It seems like Rust fans are more passively-aggressively pushing Rust much more than Go devs. Also, it seems like a lot of them talk down on Go/Go devs for the usual reasons that most people point out.
For example, Go's popularity is only because of Google. I'm sure that has to do with it, but I don't think many companies are going to be putting their bottom line at risk by using a language just because it may have come from Google. It has to actually do its job and do it well. In that case, the proof is in the pudding. Again, as more of an outsider to these languages, Go seems to be doing pretty well for a relatively young language and it's already taking over the cloud space.
> Rust Evangelism Strike Force
I know these are in quotes or meant as a joke, but it still is very off-putting to me. It's a team of 40 engineers and they have different subgroups of people coordinating essentially political efforts to advocate for programming languages. I would not like to work at a company like that.
What is with Rust and this uniquely fanatical evangelism? For me the biggest reason for not using it is the rabidness of its advocates. While they state technical reasons it seems the reasons are not technical in nature, which leads to my gut reaction of not taking them seriously.