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by saagarjha 2290 days ago
> More often I see comments like "this wouldn't have been a bug if you wrote it in Rust" which is usually accurate and engages compelling discussion.

It's usually accurate, but it rarely spurs compelling discussion in my experience. Whether it's inertia or actual pigheadedness, smugly suggesting that they could have "just" rewritten their software in Rust and they wouldn't have their day ruined doesn't invite the best kind of discussion, considering that the people involved are either just coming out of the bad day or tend to underestimate the costs of switching.