Well then, again, I really want to protest that "the Rust community is ignoring all the [social] mistakes of the past" is a pretty harsh and unfair judgment of the Rust community.
There's only a few mentions of Rust in this thread, they're all pretty tentative and polite. The mistakes of the past include stuff like people hurling insults at each other and calling people idiot for not using a given technology.
What I'm seeing in this thread is, at most, strong-ish opinions that C is systematically bad and maybe the solution is switching to Rust. That's not being abrasive, that's being opinionated.
(And yeah, I know that I'm sealion-ing this a bit; but I do think when people say stuff like "community X is abrasive and didn't learn from the past", a non-null burden of evidence should be expected)
"Opinionated, not abrasive" is one of the top 5 excuses I've heard from people who just liked to be abusive. You're free to place the border between the two wherever you want. As far as I'm concerned, things like defending not a maintainer's technical choices (which would be fair) but their abusive behaviour, or likening a technical choice with substance abuse or sharing needles, are neither tentative nor polite, "opinionated" though they may be. These are things our industry should have outgrown a long time ago.
Well then, again, I really want to protest that "the Rust community is ignoring all the [social] mistakes of the past" is a pretty harsh and unfair judgment of the Rust community.
There's only a few mentions of Rust in this thread, they're all pretty tentative and polite. The mistakes of the past include stuff like people hurling insults at each other and calling people idiot for not using a given technology.
What I'm seeing in this thread is, at most, strong-ish opinions that C is systematically bad and maybe the solution is switching to Rust. That's not being abrasive, that's being opinionated.
(And yeah, I know that I'm sealion-ing this a bit; but I do think when people say stuff like "community X is abrasive and didn't learn from the past", a non-null burden of evidence should be expected)
"Opinionated, not abrasive" is one of the top 5 excuses I've heard from people who just liked to be abusive. You're free to place the border between the two wherever you want. As far as I'm concerned, things like defending not a maintainer's technical choices (which would be fair) but their abusive behaviour, or likening a technical choice with substance abuse or sharing needles, are neither tentative nor polite, "opinionated" though they may be. These are things our industry should have outgrown a long time ago.