Comment by testdelacc1

14 days ago

Where are these rust fans? Are they in the room with us right now?

You’ve constructed a strawman with no basis in reality.

You know what actual Rust fans sound like? They sound like Matthias Endler, who wrote the article we’re discussing. Matthias hosts a popular podcast Rust in Production where talks with people about sharp edges and difficulties they experienced using Rust.

A true Rust advocate like him writes articles titled “Bugs Rust Won’t Catch”.

> Such rewritten software packages should remain for years as optional alternatives to the originals.

This project was started a decade ago. (> must first present to the world the results of a huge set of correctness tests and performance benchmarks

Yeah, you can see those in

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adrian_b  14 days ago

Those Rust fans exist on almost all Internet forums that I have seen, including on HN.

I do not care about what they say, so I have not made a list with links to what they have posted. But even only on HN, I certainly have seen much more than one hundred of such postings, more likely at least several hundreds, even on threads that did not have any close relationship with Rust, so there was no reason to discuss Rust.

Since the shameless promotion with false claims of Java by Sun, during the last years of the previous century, there has not been any other programming language affected by such a hype campaign.

I think that this is sad. Rust has introduced a few valid innovations and it is a decent programming language. Despite this, whenever someone starts mentioning Rust, my first reaction is to distrust whatever is said, until proven otherwise, because I have seen far too many ridiculous claims about Rust.