Comment by littlestymaar
5 years ago
> Every single time there is a link about C/C++, I do a quick "Ctrl+F Rust", and every single time there is some rant about "but Rust is safer than C".
If you had the same reflex with other languages when reading other HN comment thread you'll realize that everytime there's a thread about language A there's a ton of comments about language B or C. Rust threads are full of people talking about C++ or C, why is it supposed to be more OK? Go threads are full of comment about Java, Python threads are full of Go or Julia (depending on what kind of Python this is about). This isn't specific to Rust in any ways.
Yes, the GP isn't the most useful comment ever, Rust is hype and there are overly enthusiastic people, but there are also people who seem to be overly defensive about it (doing a text search to count Rust occurrences, every time, really?) and I'm not sure the latter is less childish than the former.
> If you had the same reflex with other languages
I do, always, just out of curiosity because seeing peoples view on different languages is always insightful.
> This isn't specific to Rust in any ways.
From what I've seen, Rust comments are the most condescending.
> I'm not sure the latter is less childish than the former.
It is childish to look for specific information (in this specific case: how C and Rust are compared by others) in threads that grow to hundreds of messages?
FYI, I've also looked for C++ and Go comments in this thread, and none of them were a condescending comment like "C is bad, you should use Rust, C is evil and should not be sent to production".
> From what I've seen, Rust comments are the most condescending.
You must have missed the “Java's GC is so bad, just use Go”, “Go's error handling is shit, use exceptions!” or “Rust is so complex it is unusable is the real world”, etc.