alt Hacker NewsI still think you're off the mark. Again, most existing Rust developers are not "blank slate Rust developers". That they do not rush out to rewrite all of their past projects in C++ may be more about sunk costs, and wanting to solve new problems with from-scratch development.
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mmooss • today at 5:14 AM
That's fair; my claims are kept simplistic for purposes of space and time. However, I'm talking about new projects, not rewriting legacy code.
> most existing Rust developers are not "blank slate Rust developers"
Not most, but the pool of software devs has been doubling every five years, and Rust matches C# on "Learning to Code" voters at Stack Overflow's last survey, which is crazy considering how many people learn C# just to use Unity. I think you underestimate how many developers are Rust blank slates.
Anecdotically, I've recently come across comments from people who've taught themselves Rust but not C or C++.