Comment by slopinthebag
13 hours ago
It's funny because my comment was intended the other way, i.e. the Zig community & core team is antagonistic towards Rust so they shouldn't be surprised when they get pushback, like in this thread. But it really does go both ways when you look at how the Rust community has acted historically.
But hey, nerd holy wars have existed since the internet began. I use vim btw...oh you use emacs? You're an idiot. Etc etc.
I'm not sure this is even about Zig or Rust. I'm honestly getting the feeling that the actual problem is that pron is turning into a troll and it's because he has a history of working on the JVM and he sees everything from the lens of writing language runtimes that ignore the Rust memory model altogether and the troll part is that he is not saying out loud what his niche is.
When he brought up the universality claim, he came up with a niche counter example that he kept inside his head and he makes it out to be the general rule by being extremely vague about literally everything.