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Re:“Rewrite It in Rust” Considered Harmful? [pdf] by avgcorrection on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @05:36PM (#36064184)
> One of the main reasons that people complain about rust is because it has an extremely loud group of evangelists who often shame other people for taking a different approach and essentially refuse to acknowledge that others have a point about its weaknesses.

Name them. Maybe you don’t have real names but you can probably cough up some Internet handles.

The “fanatical rustacean” is a bit of a 2018 thing. Out of the few who are actually evangelists I an fact think that they can be way too nice and conflict-averse (“right tool for the job”).

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Re:“Rewrite It in Rust” Considered Harmful? [pdf] by norir on Thursday May 25, 2023 @06:35PM (#36077270)
You realize I was responding to a comment in which the OP asked why we don't like memory safety? That is exactly what I an talking about. The coder's internet is filled with this type of attitude. You can disavow these types as not real rustaceans or whatever, but this language definitely attracts purists, which makes sense given that its main selling point is a form of purity.
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