[darksaints]

I totally understand the annoyance with cult-like behavior in the tech industry...and even as a fan of Rust, I can't help but see how obnoxious the fandom can be.

But I would much rather that cults form around ideas like memory safety in low-level languages than things like Elon Musk or Apple...which is literally everywhere on HN. Almost any postitive headline about either makes the front page in like 10 seconds, and almost any negative headline gets flagged and dumped off the front page (and the same goes for comments in their respective threads). The teeny bopper-like obsession with Rust is relatively benign in comparison.

[pjmlp]

Many keep trying since 1950's, unfortunely it took a free beer OS to spoil it, and now it is a quixotic battle of multiple generations to come, to bring it back into course.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

Free OSs didn't spoil it, since their competition was also written in memory unsafe languages

[pjmlp]

The competition to UNIX wasn't written in memory unsafe languages, at least not as unsafe as C.

JOVIAL, NEWP, BLISS, PL/I, PL/S, PL.8, Mesa, Modula-2, Object Pascal, Concurrent Pascal, ....