They’re probably marketing to potential contributors as much as to users at this point.

This is the unfortunate reality of a lot of Rust projects. There are of course some who don't fetischise the language and there are of course community members on both sides but from the outside it makes Rust look so, so unappealing and almost like a cult.

And that's without the "rewrite it in Rust" spam.

Currently the worse cult part is the subculture to push unsafe code blocks beyond the purpose of memory corruption.

There is a Rust subculture that anything that might be unsafe from usage, regardless how, should be tagged as unsafe.

I don't think it's that bad. It's so far down.

And it's fair to call it out. Rust is new & a sub community of software with a shared set of values & ideals.

I'd call out stuff built with Haskell for similar reasons. There is a community aspect to it that is undeniable.

I like that it's written in rust and that they advertise this. It's not "fetishism" as much as it is just interesting. It's also likely a big part of why they can have a "launch web editor button" that instantly works on my phone.

At least it's Graphite, written in Rust, and not RGraphite or GraphiteR. I feel like it hasn't been long enough since every Java app started (or ended, for libraries) with J.

Not a GNOME or KDE user?