Comment by letmetweakit
2 days ago
Why do you even bring this up, the blog post does not contain this message, they rewrote it to eliminate a class of bugs. They don’t bash C, so refrain yourself from mentioning what hypothetically could have been written…
Because Hacker News gamifies engagement, and they know that this kind of message tends to attract a lot of upvotes. The whole conversation tree is a carpet of land-mines, laid out in the hopes that someone steps on one so they can pounce.
This sort of gamification of discourse is poison if you actually care about good faith or reasonable discussions. HN is not a good place for either.
He wrote it because he has eyes and has seen how the typical conversations about switching to Rust often go.