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0 pointssteveklabnik2y ago0 comments

The blog post says only 13% of these people have had experience with Rust before joining Google. How do you think Google ended up with so many people who are hardcore evangelists, imposing their views on others? A significant focus of the post is about on-the-job training; do you think that these evangelists were created by these trainings, or did they come to these opinions on their own, and are now pushing for it inside of Google?

Did Google only interview these Rust-loving developers, and none of the people they're supposedly pushing Rust upon?

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izacus2y ago

What on earth are you trying to say here?

I'm just saying that Rust fans are currently self-selecting by choosing to work on Rust projects which skews the satisfaction numbers against other languages.

That doesn't have a lot to do with previous experience - with Rust being so new, __MOST__ developers, even fans, don't have much experience with it.

steveklabnikOP2y ago

I am trying to understand your perspective.

I do not understand how what you're saying here relates to this post, which does not seem to be saying the things that you are saying. I do not understand how to reconcile "we paid to train 1,000 people on the job and here's what they thought" and "only 13% of people had Rust experience before this" with "Rust fans are currently self-selecting by choosing to work on Rust projects."

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