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> capable engineers can pick up any language

Sure, given that they are getting paid for it. How many people will be interested in learning a programming language with insignificant job availability, in addition to contributing for free?

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I find that many people contributing to OSS projects tend to be the ones passionate about programming and also pick up new languages "for fun". That could be my bubble though.

Demanding others to pick up Rust "for fun" is not fun at all.

It's the beauty of the OSS community. Someone will think Rust is fun, pick it up, and contribute. No one is _demanding_ it per se. If you don't like it, you just don't contribute anymore.

I'm brushing over it lightly, I do understand this will impact people who were passionate about the project and now feel like they can't contribute anymore. Definitely an impact on an individual level. But that is, for better or worse, part of open source.

Aren't some people paid to do contributions? As in, it is their livelihoods? Of Rust developers, like you, there are also some that get paid to contribute to Rust open source projects, for instance regarding the language itself.

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