[eridius]

What scares Rust developers and users so badly is the incredible amount of wildly unsafe software that already exists, and all the new wildly unsafe software being written.

> Until we start seeing some more balanced (frankly, I'd settle for nuanced) discussion about the compromises made to get Rust's strengths, I'm staying the hell away from it.

If all you see about Rust is what hits Hacker News, you're probably not going to see much of that. The narrative about Rust's safety and the terrible state of software engineering today and dangers of all of the existing C and C++ code is a strong one that resonates with a lot of people, and so posts about that are likely to be voted up on HN. Posts about how Rust isn't a perfect language and has some flaws, well, maybe not so interesting, because every language has flaws, so there's nothing all that noteworthy there.

Also, FWIW, the post you're commenting on is written by someone who believes what they're saying in the post so strongly that they're writing an entire unix-like OS, including kernel and applications, in Rust. So it's no surprise that they're talking about what excites them about Rust and why they're using it to write a whole OS, rather than any flaws it might have.