Steve Klabnik: Node enabled an entire generation of programmers who would only ever be "front end devs" that only have done a little bit of jquery and enabled them to write backend code. That was a new superpower for them. This whole group of people now have this ability to do this brand new thing in computing. We've seen those fantastic things sort of fall out of that with all these new people getting excited. What i'm hoping is that if you've never done system programming before that Rust will be able to help ease you into doing this kind of low level programming.
Yehuda Katz: One thing that you can bet will happen is the exact same thing that happened with node is that there's all those people out there who are already system programmers, just like there were all these people who were already backend programmers, and they didn't get the enabling power of node. You'll hear people say "I don't understand why Rust is so important, i can do all this stuff with C++". "Look at my C++ code i'm already doing all