[voxl]

> Because we had chosen an “esoteric” programming language for this service, the other engineers in the company who might have otherwise been helpful in building features, debugging production issues, and so forth were largely unable to help because they couldn’t make heads or tails of the Rust codebase.

Then they are bad engineers and should be fired. Maybe it's just my general rage at so-called developers being incapable of understanding undergraduate level recursive functions, but the quality of developer is on the floor in my opinion.

[ferdowsi]

Not very convincing when "git gud" is the common response to Rust's exuberance towards needless complexity in use cases that it doesn't fit well in (like CRUD applications)

[0x457]

I don't think it's a "git gut" kind of response. There are some engineers who keep repeating "oh X is so hard, I've never tried myself or even looked at it, but I've heard that it's hard". X could be anything.

If you are a software engineer and not a code monkey in a web shop, you should have no problem at least trying to expand your knowledge. I worked with people who're afraid of changing a line in k8s manifest file even after you tell them what and where.

There are some languages that look alien to the typical engineer and hard to understand without at least a minor prior knowledge, but Rust isn't one of them.

[bigbillheck]

I agree that it sounds like they're not the sharpest knives in the drawer, but completely disagree on the 'should be fired' part.