I think you read into the article some things that weren’t there. The question from the colleague was why I was even interested in learning something we all knew (me included!) we wouldn’t use there. At no point did I propose using Rust at that .NET shop! The whole point was that I was curious about and enthusiastically learning—on the side, on my own time!—a technology that was totally unrelated to my job. Pretty sure the closest that shop ever got to Rust was when I shared interesting bits about it in the company’s wide-open tech talk series, but that series also included folks sharing things like “this cool thing I did with a Raspberry Pi” and “look at what cool hacks you can do with Amazon Alexa” and so on. Long story short, you’re not even responding to what I actually wrote, but to something else that you (probably for good reasons in your own experience) get button-mashed by! (Me too, for what it’s worth!)
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