[daboross]

Could you site this?

I've looked at ilovecaching's comment history (at least up to ~60 days ago) and they seem consistent on being a networking programmer who uses C++. Was there a particular comment you found which would indicate this isn't the truth?

[f2f]

nb: you mean "cite".

why would you make me do this? you can doxx people on your own dime... still, for posterity:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18328964 "...now I am working full time as a Rust developer"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18310666 "As a long time Erlang developer..."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18265199 "As someone who has worked two jobs now writing, deploying, and operating Erlang clusters, I recommend switching to Rust."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18251478 "Becoming a professional Haskell and Erlang developer really shifted my view on OOP"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18185795 "I've been using Rust in production for a little over half a year, and my team and I have run into very few issues. [...] We're all extremely glad we chucked C++ and Go and switched to Rust. "

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18171917 "I am exclusively using Go and Rust at home and at work, and I find myself equally productive in both."

you get the point.

[moosingin3space]

It really isn't that ridiculous that someone who has worked as a network engineer for a decade would use Erlang, C++, and Go. Even Haskell isn't too much of a stretch, considering the user's company has functional programming expertise in Erlang. Rust is a neat language that, depending on their workload, could replace all of those languages. Why the presumption of bad faith?

[TheCoelacanth]

Not seeing any major inconsistencies. Three months ago they exclusively used Go and Rust, at some point before that they used Erlang and Haskell and they used C++ for a total of over 10 years.

[atombender]

Talk about cherry-picking. It's pretty clear from those comments that they've worked with Erlang before, as well as Haskell and C++, and that they've transitioned to use Rust.

For example, in the same comment that begins with "As a long time Erlang developer", they later continue: "I’m more optimistic about Rust ... We’ve been able to scale Rust to handle the same load as our Erlang cluster". So there's no contradiction here.

[faitswulff]

A couple languages doesn't seem beyond the realm of possibility for one engineer to be familiar with, though?

[siegfried-en]

You have a point, but he never said he programmed exclusively in C++, so I don’t really see the issue here...

[mquander]

I guess I'm glad that someone sits around looking through comment histories skeptically, but I don't see what about these comments seem suspicious to you.

[fxfan]

I think what you're posting definitely sounds suspicious and a lot of rust users are doing it for the hype but.

1) rust genuinely is a great language and his opinion in the comment is something I have as a professional c++ programmer or the past

2) his comment history is only suspicious and only mildly, there's nothing outright contradictory. I would give him the benefit of doubt.