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You'd be mistaken. steveklabnik is a hired Rust evangelist who also writes docs.

> Wherever there is discussion about Rust to be found, be it IRC, the RFCs repo, or Reddit/HackerNews, you can be sure to find a comment or two from Steve there, explaining and clarifying the situation.

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2014/12/12/Core-Team.html

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To be clear, my job description is "doc writer". I've been posting a ton on HN for _years_, and advocating for Rust before I ever had a job working on it. At the time that post was written, I was a contractor, and it wasn't clear if I was ever going to stay on with Mozilla; historically, I've told everyone this was a short-term gig, though my feelings on that have been changing a bit.

Regardless of that, if you ever hear me saying Rust is a "panacea" or "immediately re-write everything [in Rust]", call me out on it. I don't agree with either of those positions. I want people to accurately understand what's going on, not mislead them.

(I _do_ want to see more people using Rust, because I love it, but not everyone will also love Rust, and that's totally fine.)

Having idled around the same tech watering holes as you have for years, I'd think they'd have to make a significant effort to keep you from talking about it. ;)

I am a pretty active observer of rust community as the language abilities and paradigms excite and suit me. Therefore I do see steveklabnik as well as several others frequent these avenues. In all my time reading Reddit/HN/etc. I've never seen steve or the others "advocate"; they're doing exactly what that description states which is explain and clarify. The tech community brings up rust as a discussion topic and they spend their own time (possibly some of Mozilla's) to make sure that the community understands the organization (not just Mozilla), drive, and tech behind rust.

> steveklabnik is a hired Rust evangelist who also writes docs.

Nobody is paid to evangelize on message boards.

> There are some core developers who work for Mozilla

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