Comment by ALLTaken

Steelmanning a rust programmer's argument: memory issues have a very large blast radius, as the bugs tend to show up in completely unrelated. Because of this, dependencies on languages not written in Rust can easily corrupt areas that are unrelated.

I feel like one of Rust's defining philosophies is modularity, in the sense that each module should be self-contained, and have clear boundaries. This can come up as an assumption behind their arguments imo.

I think it was Rich Hickey who said "Programmers understand the benefits of everything, and the costs of nothing."

I'm also reminded of video game forums where everyone argued whether the Xbox or Playstation is better, not because they're genuinely interested in the pros and cons of each system, but because they only have an allowance to buy one of them, so they're trying to gaslight everyone and themselves into believing the one they picked is better. In the case of programming languages, there's only so much time in the day, so the people who post on this site go all-in on the programming language they picked, and will rationalize any reason they can think of to believe the language they picked is better.