IME in the last while on HN the Rust Evangelism(TM) debate has been brought up either unprompted or because someone argued that Rust was objectively better on some metric (like memory safety compared to another language). In the latter case someone says something that can be argued on its merits but then someone else decides to tone police about “evangelism”.
In this thread there are two Rust subthreads: someone brought up (and was downvoted) “why not Rust” out of nowhere (evangelism) and this one where we are discussing Rust Evangelism because GP quoted Kling on some separate tweet.
So yes. We mostly seem to discuss Rust Evangelism as a meta thing. Something that has supposedly definitely happened, or is happening somewhere else, just rarely right in front of us in the discussions at hand.[1] I think that qualifies as a meme.
In this thread there are two Rust subthreads: someone brought up (and was downvoted) “why not Rust” out of nowhere (evangelism) and this one where we are discussing Rust Evangelism because GP quoted Kling on some separate tweet.
So yes. We mostly seem to discuss Rust Evangelism as a meta thing. Something that has supposedly definitely happened, or is happening somewhere else, just rarely right in front of us in the discussions at hand.[1] I think that qualifies as a meme.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41119392