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>I think the main issue is that it never was about how rust programmers should write more rust. Just like a religion it is about what other people should do.

>Rust should have done exactly one thing and do that as good as possible: be a C replacement and do that while sticking as close as possible to the C syntax.

Irony.



No, just Rust's original stated goal.


Uhh, no. Rust started its life as a language with a garbage collector. It turned out to be a great C replacement, but that was never its original goal.




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