[celliopia]

Why are the Rust proponents so triggered by what seems to be an honest question about the popularity of Rust? I don't know the first thing about Elixir or Erlang but I realize there are some powerful properties of BEAM and if there seemed to be a trend to rewrite apps into BEAM apps I would want to know what am I missing out on that, if clued-in, I would join the rush as well. I think that's what OP is saying here (perhaps clumsily) but why vote the question down so aggressively? Makes you look like a thin-skinned lot who don't like to explain yourselves which would be a reason to avoid the "Rustacean" community.

[uncomputation]

To be fair, if there were a trend to write things in Erlang and someone posted “why use Erlang and not Rust? what am i missing?” I would also expect that to be down-voted. Nothing specific to Rustaceans here. I don’t agree with downvoting the comment because it is contributing to a conversation which is what HN is all about, but it was probably the assumption that Go is already the winner in the space of networked apps when Rust has many good technical qualities as well. Like you said, clumsily worded.

[dagmx]

Where are you seeing "triggered" comments? Every reply to that person has been very balanced and neutral, and the question seems to have a positive vote at this point.