The official Rust community isn't helping itself, either, here. If they were even a little bit as eager to step on lazy "C is bad" comments as to point out how safe Rust is it might help. Lazy reasoning about competitor languages isn't helpful because it inhibits the ability to effectively tout Rust's benefits.

But I've basically stopped commenting in Rust threads. There's too much "not even wrong" as regards C and C++ to be bothered with.