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Re:Why you should, actually, rewrite some of it in Rust by FRex on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @04:05PM (#14756138)
There's critique (and I have lots towards both C and C++ but nothing fits my hobby better and all libs I like are in it and I know them the best so..) and there's just being downright stupid and insulting("stars aligning to write C", "humanly impossible to write C++", etc.).

In any case Rust is still solidly on my list of things to learn to become a T-shaped person with lots of insight from different angles but it's annoying to even be unable to skim through comments without seeing garbage, this doesn't happen that often, even the Java, C#, C, C++ quartet stopped going at each other's throats online a long long time ago and it's just skirmishes now and not a constant onslaught.

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Re:Why you should, actually, rewrite some of it in Rust by steveklabnik on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @04:12PM (#14756206)
I absolutely agree. Being stupid and insulting is not good, both in general and for the language. Not acknowledging other languages' successes means that we have blind spots for improvements, not to mention things like you've commented all over this thread.

As others have said, I think this is more of an HN issue than anything else; you won't see this kind of discourse in Rust-centric spaces. I know that's not super helpful, but I'm not a HN moderator, so...

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