[jacquesm]

I wonder if the Iron fans realize that they are doing more harm than good the way they go about this. It reminds me of the perl zealot days.

[oblio]

The Iron fans are doing a bit of harm but that Perl zealotism is one of the things that made it wildly popular in its day. And unlike Perl, Iron development is structured, not "organic" a la Larry Wall/Perl.

I'm not an Iron zealot but I do believe that there rarely is such a thing as bad publicity :)

[jacquesm]

Seen much perl lately?

[oblio]

Yes, surely the downfall of Perl was caused by its zealous fans, not by the apparition of other programming languages that were either easier to use (PHP), more readable (Python) or had more attractive frameworks (Ruby) :)

[Retra]

Who's being harmed?

[umanwizard]

Presumably, people who wanted to talk about Cello in this thread, not Rust, and are having the signal-to-noise ratio reduced by this derailing.

[kibwen]

There's literally not a single comment in this thread comparing C to Rust, and yet Rust fanatics are the ones derailing here? Care to elaborate, my good friend?

[jacquesm]

No idea where the GP got 'rust' from this is about Iron. You know.

[kibwen]

Agreed, and "Iron", which, according to frostirosti, "doesn't totally enforce type safety", doesn't describe Rust in the slightest, so it almost feels like anyone projecting Rust evangelism from that comment must be talking out of their ass. You know. :)