Was? New junk is added to Rust every few weeks, using past tense seems intentionally deceitful, as does re-characterizing my comment. I really do mean ugly as in ugly. That's why I wrote that.

One of the strongest factors behind a lot of people choosing to stay away from Rust is that so many conversations with advocates are met with toxic and subtly toxic behavior. They demean software that's not memory safe the way that politicians use their words to sow anger. C has won, and Rust blew it's shot aiming at C++ instead.

As Amazon swallows Rust and spits all the refuse out, I can't help but smile, because it's a community that's been begging for obsolescence via their attitudes and behaviors since day one.