To be fair, if there were a trend to write things in Erlang and someone posted “why use Erlang and not Rust? what am i missing?” I would also expect that to be down-voted. Nothing specific to Rustaceans here. I don’t agree with downvoting the comment because it is contributing to a conversation which is what HN is all about, but it was probably the assumption that Go is already the winner in the space of networked apps when Rust has many good technical qualities as well. Like you said, clumsily worded.