I want to get work done. Not be a part of some "software taste revolution." If you can't help me get my work done you're not on the list.
It's your point of view that is narrow. If popularity is not material then the loss of a single developer will have no impact and Rust will be the same as it ever was. Otherwise popularity matters and you should endeavor to observe and catalogs Rusts shortcomings so they can be addressed.
ironic to call someone's POV narrow just becasue it disagrees with your worldview.
>I don't subscribe to this philosophy. People will repeat it in certain contexts to avoid sounding out of touch and incurring social bullying but I have genuine doubts that their beliefs can be so easily manipulated.
We had an entire election where a state was bought with votes, admitted it was a scam, and is using the courts as a cost of doing business. Beliefs can in fact be manupulated more easily than you expect for the common people.
If lots of articles are written saying that popularity is all that matters, then people will start believing it, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. That's the narrowness.
I don't subscribe to this philosophy. People will repeat it in certain contexts to avoid sounding out of touch and incurring social bullying but I have genuine doubts that their beliefs can be so easily manipulated.
> and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy
If you do believe this then your answer is just to write a bunch of articles in the opposite direction. It's a gross sort of world to accept living in; though, this is probably why I hold the belief I've espoused above.