Will Crichton

I train Rust since 4 years (Meetup, Hack & Learn and actually as a paid trainer for 3 years now) and I _hate_ it when people bring up "learnability" in language RFCs. Most of the time, it's a bit of anecdata, scrapped together.

We tried something slightly structural in this direction and it was useful I think. https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01001 

Glancing over if before I step on the plane, 2 things caught my eye: 1) you quote numbers from the survey. The problem is that there's no comparison numbers with other languages (which are hard to get by, but I would have mentioned that).

We literally don't know if our language is good or bad there. Being part of a teaching foundation, 25-50% drop-out rates are not _unusual_. (Note, anecdata!)

2) You mention that there's almost no discourse around integrating codebases. This is frequently covered in conference talks and at meetups, many of them can be found on our YT channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGj-Fxg5txQ&list=PL85XCvVPmGQjlFDGbwyxJVG4Xt8tVcmmI …).

There was also a whole miniconf on the subject (https://berline.rs/2018/08/08/binding-to-everything.html …), sadly the videos were busted.