You write:

> Great, more pointless language warring.

Then:

> Switching to rust made iteration times on my OS significantly smaller, the code much easier to maintain, and the tooling almost completely standard Rust tooling instead of a jury rigged amalgamation of Unix tools etc.

That's language warring. Of all languages, Rust is the last that should complain about language warring (there's an entire "rewrite it in Rust" culture).

You missed the point of my comment, then.

Language warring isn't really pointless, because generating hype and buzz is what drives BIG-BUSINESS-CORPS into adopting new languages for their flavor of the decade.

Having been directly involved in language support discussions at one of the very largest BIG-BUSINESS-CORPS, I am pretty confident that "hype and buzz" is not the key contributor to decision making.

Yes, not sure what commenter is pointing at. It's not the large corps that drive this kind of froth, it's smaller shops or startups with smaller teams where decisions get more easily dominated by individuals with opinions.

But, all that said. Rust Good. I work in Rust. I like Rust. I just don't believe in one size fits all, and I want to see companies apply balanced processes in technology or framework adoption.

While Java is the 'safe' pick now, remember that it was once a language being fad pushed by Sun and Smalltalk fans.

"I Was There, Gandalf, 3000 Years Ago"

Competition is good, right? Debating the merits of each.

My own Ax. I love Rust, but wish it had used white spaces instead of curly braces.

Channeling dang here: your tone isn't appropriate for HN community. I don't agree with parent's whitespace opinion either, but I don't see why you think it's appropriate to call it idiotic.

To be generous. I think he was being sarcastic, in the theme of language war debate. By having an over-the-top reaction.

White space haiku

    WHITE SPACE, LANGUAGE, OH
    HOW CLEAR FUNCTIONS SPELLBOUND, {_}
    CURLY BRACES {FOG}

Apropos of nothing, it's "jerry rigged". Jury-rigged is a corruption which is why it doesn't make sense. The phrase originates in World War 1 when jerry was slang for a German (and might itself have been a corruption of the word German).

Thanks, I actually always thought it was Jerry, but I see jury way more often and just had it in my head that I must have been wrong. :D The internet giveth and taketh.