[bjz_]

> Unfortunately this stupidity is never going to end as long as language creators measure language success in adoption numbers and TIOBE scores rather than the warm fuzzy feeling of handling certain people's needs really, really well.

I don't think that the language creators are behind this in this instance, more over-excited users continuing the hype cycle. I definitely agree that it does a disservice to the language. I posted this on /r/rust[0]:

> Please don't push the hype train to far - our language, tooling and strong community does a lot of work to sell itself, and we will get a backlash if we are not up-front honest about Rust's problems. Ruby and Go are experiencing that now. Some languages are better than others especially in specific domains, but even the better ones are not silver bullets, and Rust is no different. I use Rust for some things because I feel the trade-offs are worth it.

Not all of us feel the need to sugar coat Rust.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5kytg5/rust_is_softwa...