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by flohofwoe 761 days ago
I spent 20 years with C++ as my main language, and the endless and heated "style discussions" where personal.opinions are thrown around like facts were just tiring and a massive waste of time.

And it's such endless circular discussion where the extremists show up (I guess the equivalent in Rust is shaming projects that use unsafe, IIRC there have been quite a few dramas in the past). Shit like this is simply mentally exhausting, and in now 7 years of C as my main language I did not encounter this even once). In general C coders seems to be a quite relaxed, happy and tolerant bunch.
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pdimitar 761 days ago
Restating your anecdotal evidence is just stubborn and does not advance any discussion but you do you.

You also addressed almost zero of what I said and asked you.

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flohofwoe 761 days ago
In the end I did seriously look into Rust for a time and decided that's not my thing and instead watch progress from the sidelines in case anything interesting happens in the language to give it another try.

What's quite obvious when watching from the outside is that it's almost always people with a crab emoji in their profile who are more likely to talk shit about C programmers (myself included in a couple of cases via subtweeting).

I usually just shrug it off and move on, because what else is there to do?

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pdimitar 761 days ago
> In the end I did seriously look into Rust for a time and decided that's not my thing and instead watch progress from the sidelines in case anything interesting happens in the language to give it another try.

FYI I did the same because the kind of work that I do does not desperately need Rust's benefits.

But I'll always call out biased and prejudiced people and I don't care about what the HN group-think believes.

> I usually just shrug it off and move on, because what else is there to do?

1. Stop thinking that the zealots are representative of... anything at all, really. (I don't include myself in that group of zealots. I get ticked off by bias and firmly held preconceived notions. That's why I commented as much in the entire sub-thread started by me.)

2. Do your own research like you did.

3. Refuse to think about trolls and zealots. Which is what all of us as healthy adults in this attention-predatory age of the internet should do.

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