Could you site this?

I've looked at ilovecaching's comment history (at least up to ~60 days ago) and they seem consistent on being a networking programmer who uses C++. Was there a particular comment you found which would indicate this isn't the truth?

nb: you mean "cite".

why would you make me do this? you can doxx people on your own dime... still, for posterity:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18328964 "...now I am working full time as a Rust developer"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18310666 "As a long time Erlang developer..."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18265199 "As someone who has worked two jobs now writing, deploying, and operating Erlang clusters, I recommend switching to Rust."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18251478 "Becoming a professional Haskell and Erlang developer really shifted my view on OOP"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18185795 "I've been using Rust in production for a little over half a year, and my team and I have run into very few issues. [...] We're all extremely glad we chucked C++ and Go and switched to Rust. "

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18171917 "I am exclusively using Go and Rust at home and at work, and I find myself equally productive in both."

you get the point.

It really isn't that ridiculous that someone who has worked as a network engineer for a decade would use Erlang, C++, and Go. Even Haskell isn't too much of a stretch, considering the user's company has functional programming expertise in Erlang. Rust is a neat language that, depending on their workload, could replace all of those languages. Why the presumption of bad faith?

Not seeing any major inconsistencies. Three months ago they exclusively used Go and Rust, at some point before that they used Erlang and Haskell and they used C++ for a total of over 10 years.

Talk about cherry-picking. It's pretty clear from those comments that they've worked with Erlang before, as well as Haskell and C++, and that they've transitioned to use Rust.

For example, in the same comment that begins with "As a long time Erlang developer", they later continue: "I’m more optimistic about Rust ... We’ve been able to scale Rust to handle the same load as our Erlang cluster". So there's no contradiction here.

A couple languages doesn't seem beyond the realm of possibility for one engineer to be familiar with, though?

You have a point, but he never said he programmed exclusively in C++, so I don’t really see the issue here...

I guess I'm glad that someone sits around looking through comment histories skeptically, but I don't see what about these comments seem suspicious to you.

I think what you're posting definitely sounds suspicious and a lot of rust users are doing it for the hype but.

1) rust genuinely is a great language and his opinion in the comment is something I have as a professional c++ programmer or the past

2) his comment history is only suspicious and only mildly, there's nothing outright contradictory. I would give him the benefit of doubt.