You don't need people who are learning their first "systems language" to evangelize. You actually need to convince C and C++ programmers, who are largely put off by the hype.

Rust seems to be popular only in the web sphere, where Javascript and Python programmers are tweeting that they now know a "systems language".

> Rust seems to be popular only in the web sphere, where Javascript and Python programmers are tweeting that they now know a "systems language".

I see that is the best thing Rust brings to the table, as the scope of learning and using Rust is pretty much “scoped “. Once you are comfortable with the compiler, you can use Rust reliably and deloy code to production. Whereas C/C++ is very “open” to learn, you can learn the syntax and basic in a couple of weeks, but to use it correctly and reliably (to a certain degree) WITHOUT SUPERVISION from another advanced programmers takes years of experience under your belt.

Yeah! I'm not about to go acting like I'm a systems programmer. I'm not writing drivers. But there's a lot of CS principles you just don't get exposed to when writing web stuff and that's what I'm after. Just knowing those things better will make be a better programmer, even if I never use rust professionally.

>Rust seems to be popular only in the web sphere, where Javascript and Python programmers are tweeting that they now know a "systems language".

This is great because now we are starting to get faster, more performant libraries and code. People switching from Node to Rust see huge speedups. Perhaps we'll also switch from JS to rust with WASM. Rust is nice because it's high level enough to write code with algebraic data types, like in TypeScript, so that maintenance is easier. Personally I'd love to see as many people as possible move from JS and Python to Rust.