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Comment by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF

5 days ago

> I don't remember any other language's proponents actively attacking the users of other programming language.

I just saw someone on Hacker News saying that Rust was a bad language because of its users

Yawn. Really, if you have nothing to say don't do it here.

  • Gotcha hypocrisy might be a really cheap thing to point out, but they're not wrong.

    I have noticed my fair share of Rust Derangement Syndrome in C++ spaces that seems completely outsized from the series of microaggressions that they eventually point out when asked "Why?"

    • It’s interesting, over the past 15 years I’ve had occasion to work with other c/c++ devs on various contracts, probably 50ish distinct different companies. Not once has rust even come up in casual conversation.

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