Comment by panza
10 months ago
> "If shaming on social media does not work, then tell me what does, because I'm out of ideas."
This is just an incredibly odd thing to say. It's so obviously out of line that it seems like someone's joking around.
The Rust community (generally-speaking) just can't see why people have a visceral reaction against them, independent of its technical qualities. In all my years, I've not seen anything like it.
Hector seems to both have the right intentions but also an inflammatory tone in discussions that makes it challenging to support his points.
Mightn't it just be that it's a newer technology, which newness has attracted a younger crowd, and this happens to be part of the younger culture right now, more broadly?