This makes no sense. Almost by definition, anyone derailing a discussion to mention $FOO is a member of the $FOO community.

It's disingenuous to suggest that all derailment is due to non-$FOO advocates.

> There is nothing new or sad about it.

The phenomenon of persistent derailment is, in fact, something that I had not seen until Rust arrived.

It is new, it's limited only to Rust advocates as a group, and I find it sad.

Apparently you have never seen a thread on X11, which almost invariably is derailed by a discussion about Wayland. Or in general, any discussion on Wayland or systemd is derailed into a rant how they're the worst software ever developed or something, to a tedious degree that makes me long for the Rewrite-it-in-Rust comments because at least those sometime make compelling points.

There, now we're not limited to just Rust advocates, so I hope you no longer find this thread sad : )

And if you search my post history, you'll find some posts that make it clear I despise go.

As it turns out, languages aren't religions--you can like a language and admit it has flaws, and you can hate a language and admit it has strengths.

so yes, you pointed out the moniker of the individual doing this. It doesn't obviate the point.