vision doc: what do people love about Rust?

[nikomatsakis]

cc @rust-lang/project-vision-doc-2025

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[jackh726]

A couple typos identified in CI, but overall I love this.

[Kobzol]

Great story! I think that there might be perhaps a bit too many quotes to my liking, but in the end that's why you did the interviews, so why not.

I also didn't understand what do those recommendations mean. It's a bit weird that a blog post on the official Rust blog recommends something to.. Rust? 😆 I mean, I get what you mean by it, but it looks a bit weird still.

Btw, some quote authors are probably relatively easy to identify 😆 But I suppose that's not really an issue.

[Kobzol]

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Rust has been named Stack Overflow's Most Loved (now called Most Admired) language ever since our 1.0 release in 2015. That means people who use Rust want to keep using Rust[^gleam]--and not just for performance-heavy stuff or embedded development, but for shell scripts, web apps, and all kinds of things you wouldn't expect. One of our participants captured it well when they said, "At this point, I don't want to write code in any other language but Rust."

Rust has been named Stack Overflow's Most Loved (now called Most Admired) language every year since our 1.0 release in 2015. That means people who use Rust want to keep using Rust[^gleam]--and not just for performance-heavy stuff or embedded development, but for shell scripts, web apps, and all kinds of things you wouldn't expect. One of our participants captured it well when they said, "At this point, I don't want to write code in any other language but Rust."

[Kobzol]

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When we sat down to crunch the vision doc data, one of the things we really wanted to explain was: *What is it that inspires that strong loyalty to Rust?*[^messitup] Based on the interviews, the answer is at once simple and complicated. The short version is that **Rust empowers them to write reliable and efficient software**. If that sounds familiar, it should: [it's the slogan that we have right there on our web page](https://www.rust-lang.org). The more interesting question is **how** that empowerment comes about, and what that it implies for how we evolve Rust.

When we sat down to crunch the vision doc data, one of the things we really wanted to explain was: *What is it that inspires that strong loyalty to Rust?*[^messitup] Based on the interviews, the answer is at once simple and complicated. The short version is that **Rust empowers them to write reliable and efficient software**. If that sounds familiar, it should: [it's the slogan that we have right there on our web page](https://www.rust-lang.org). The more interesting question is **how** that empowerment comes about, and what it implies for how we evolve Rust.

[Kobzol]

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	The first thing we noticed is that, throughout every conversation, no matter whether soneone is writing their first Rust program or has been writing it for years, no matter whether they're building massive data clusters or embedded devices or just messing around, there are a consistent set of things that they say they like about Rust.
	The first thing we noticed is that, throughout every conversation, no matter whether someone is writing their first Rust program or has been using it for years, no matter whether they're building massive data clusters or embedded devices or just messing around, there are a consistent set of things that they say they like about Rust.

[Kobzol]

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To make it clearer that those are two distinct quotes? (same for other quote pairs)