Comment by blub

Rustafarians do seem to be worried by Fil-C and for good reason.

One of the top two issues with Rust is its cumbersome and overbearing syntax and anything which sidesteps that is automatically attractive to anyone which is worried about memory safety and doesn’t like to encode every little detail about in the type system. That’s the majority of programmers… think about it, that’s one of the big reasons people switched to GC languages which are the most popular languages.

The classic Rust approach to addressing criticism of the syntax was a mix of downplaying, gaslighting and “you’re holding it wrong”. But if easy to use, reasonably ergonomic alternatives become available, I expect that most would prefer them to Rust.