Over the last year or so I have been reading a lot of attacks on Rust and Rust "fanboys" seeing a lot of YouTube vids attacking the supposed Rust "cult".

In case anyone has not been following, a lot of this has a legitimate origin. For example Ubuntu pushing out a buggy rewrite in Rust of Linux core utils. Recently a Microsoft guy announcing MS's intention to rewrite al of MS C/C++ in Rust using AI. Not to mention the battle going on about Rust in the Linux kernel. There are other such stories.

After years following this forum and others, where I assume Rust "cultists" hangout I have never heard anyone advocating for rewriting huge old code bases in Rust. On the contrary I hear most saying that this is most likely a bad idea. There is discussion and work going on towards interoperability, symbiosis, rather than replacement of old languages.

I conclude all this nonsense is not Rust's fault. Not the fault of Rust developers. Not the fault of any of us here. Rather it is a choice of Ubuntu or MS. or whoever.

I have tried sometimes to communicate this in response to the stories like the ones I mentioned, Only to be attacked as a Rust cult member.

None of this is making any sense to me.

So I was wondering. We have a Rust Foundation. Which I assume is a major communication media between Rust and the world. Perhaps they could make official "comment" on such stories pointing out that they do not recommend such crazy rewrites and so on.

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