Hello everyone! Today we have an announcement: a beta of our new website!https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/11/29/a-new-look-for-rust-lang-org.html …
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Love this one comment that I think has limited rusts reach in the past and may now send away even more potential rustaceans "The programming language that empowers everyone to become a systems programmer." - systems programmer.
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Many potential users may see this then turn away thinking systems programming doesn't apply to their usecase because systems programming means different things to different people's. To me rust is about confidence and reliability.
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I’ve encountered this as well. If you say “systems programmer” then a bunch of people turn and say it doesn’t apply to their case.
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It's a blurry line and a shame when you lose a potentially more diverse audience :/
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it is time for rust to move into "general purpose language specially designed for systems programming but not limited to it"
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I feel like its becoming more capable ( esp w ergonomic improvements in the last yr ) to be more generally applied and less pigeonholed. Painting into into any corner may be less helpful now more than ever. I'm feeling more confident to recommend rust to friends for any problem
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Yeah there are systems-y spots where Rust shines, but I feel like I could use it for a ton of stuff people don’t think about it for.
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ya. the WGs have helped take rust forward in web dev, wasm, etc. Some people have plans of a game-dev WG and if that kicks off it will take rust to new areas
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Hot stuff, coming through

! That's great to hear. I hope there's another mass #rustlang retro/future-spective blog roll to help drive some new initiatives like that forward like there was last year. It's gonna be a great year for rust I can feel the momentum/energy already
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There will be. Check the blog’s repo 
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Cool. I opened a gh issue and quickly learned there was already an active discussion going on in another
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