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

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.

I also find that Go has delightful build tooling; running 'go build ./...' is nearly the universal build tool.

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

Agreed, go has good build tooling. And pretty good tooling in general.

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.