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Ohhhhhhh, this explains a lot of the "Rust is the next great thing" I keep seeing around. Amazon has taken a page out of Microsoft's 90s playbook of embracing stuff and astroturfing their extensions until they claim it as their own and extinguish competition.

I hope the Rust team finds a way out, but I suspect now that if Amazon has their hooks in it then they'll just fork it.

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Unsurprisingly there are a lot of ex-softies at amazon.

And apparently at least 5 of them visit HN

Given how many of the personal attacks on Steve are saying almost the same thing, I don't know that it's "at least five". It might be just one person with multiple accounts. If it's more than one, they're all following the same idea of what message they should be using to smear Steve...

Probably the same AI as the FC ambassador garbage. https://www.engadget.com/amp/2019-08-15-there-s-something-fi...

Nah Rust evangelism is pretty organic. I remember it having a cult 6 years ago too, before any of these companies got involved.

> Rust evangelism is pretty organic

I'm sure it was. But it's six years on, and companies have gotten involved. They now have a financial stake. It would be naive to think that evangelism is still genuine grass roots, in the same way that it's naive to think the stuff on your FB feed reflects what your friends find interesting and worth sharing.

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