alt Hacker NewsDon't worry, they probably wouldn't want to work with you either.
Some programmers think and care a lot about software correctness in a kind of mathematical way. Others just want to ship features and enjoy their lives. Both approaches are fine. They just don't necessarily mix super well.
Some people like to tell you that diverse teams work better. Years ago I worked with someone who had a PhD in psychometrics. She said that's kind of a lie. If you actually look at the research it shows something more interesting. She said the research shows that having a diverse set of backgrounds makes a team perform better. But having a diverse set of values makes a team perform worse. It makes sense. If one person on the team wants to vibe code and someone else wants to make every line of code perfect, you're all in for a bad time.
There is a third kind. Those who want to have a lot of fun by using their imagination to come up with interesting ways build something, but in rust, the borrow checker often won't have any of it.
In rust you have to learn and internalize lot of the non-intutive borrow checker reasoning to remain sane. If you remember to spend a fraction of that effort to remember the "unsafe" things you could end up doing in C, then I think most people would be fine.
But rust enforces it, which is good for a small fraction of all software that is being written. But "Rust for everything!?"..Give me a fucking break!