Your comment misses the point entirely.

As you know, Real Programmers can write FORTRAN in any language.

But, do we want to?

No, we want to learn what is new and useful in a new language. We want to learn how to make best use of that language.

That doesn't mean writing code that looks just like the language we used before. What would be the point of using a new language, then?

No one cares what the "Rust elite" think. Didn't you see that that was just a humorous throwaway comment following a much more important point: writing idiomatic code.

Learning to write idiomatic code helps us see what is new and useful in any language.

We won't learn that by writing FORTRAN in the new language.

But seeing how experienced users write their code is a great way to see what is good and interesting about the language.

Working code is far less valuable than maintainable code.

EDIT: not always, of course, but unless it's a one-off tool, it doesn't make a lot of sense to NOT be idiomatic.

I think something was lost in translation here (assuming you aren't a native English speaker). This was a joke.