[mplanchard]

Do you not think that the thread you’re currently on here on HN has a lot of rust programmers? So your “most recent encounter” is actually this thread.

It’s trivial to find examples of people in any community who are a bit off the rails, but you shouldn’t let that define your perception of the community, especially given the fact that you’re currently in a context where your thesis doesn’t have much to support it.

[chjj]

Fair enough. I suppose it is my most recent encounter. The result: I still don't like the rust community. You may have different opinions. I see no issue here.

[hyperbrainer]

> I still don't like the rust community

I wonder whether you believe these people would ever be endorsed by the faces of the Rust language or whether the majority of people in the community would behave so. In my experience (not to minimise yours), the Rust community and FOSS in general, are some of the most open and welcoming communities online, albeit with clear exceptions

[pdimitar]

I see the issue. Biased people like yourself don't belong in tech.

For the record, I only picked Rust 5-ish years ago out of a 23 years of career. I know plenty of other languages. I was a skeptic at the start as well. Never generalized a pretty big group like you do though.

You should be ashamed.

[chjj]

FTR I don't really have a problem with the rust language. I think there's some interesting ideas in there. I don't really like the syntax, but that's a minor nitpick.

Not sure what to make of your other comments.

[pdimitar]

And I didn't say this was about Rust the language. I said many times it's not OK for you to generalize an entire community of hard-working people. It will never be OK.

What is actually funny in our exchanges is that I don't even actively work with Rust anymore. I work with multiple languages, it included. I've met very smart, humble and fairly hardcore [Rust] devs from whom I learned a lot and got severely humbled as a result (as I was under the illusion that there's not much more I could learn in programming back then).

My other comments are fairly trivial English. Surely you can very easily make something out of them.

[chjj]

My mistake. I thought your comment about being a skeptic was referring to the language itself.

It sounds like you had a good experience with the rust community. I'm glad it worked for you. But from what I've seen, it's not for me.

[johnisgood]

> generalize an entire community of hard-working people

By claiming they are hard-working, you are generalizing. It is usually only a couple or few that are actually hard-working people, but then again, I am generalizing because I do not know, I do not wish to actually claim to know.

Judging by your comments, e.g. "you should be ashamed" (for simply expressing his dislike of YOUR community), you sound exactly like a zealot.

Why do you feel the need to claim moral superiority and tell someone to be ashamed just for simply expressing their dislike of your community? And while we are at it, he probably dislikes the community because of people like you. We have gone full circle.

I am not even going to bother commenting on a lot of things you have said, but:

> My other comments are fairly trivial English. Surely you can very easily make something out of them.

Sounds condescending as well, but this is a minor nitpick. :)

[pdimitar]

> By claiming they are hard-working, you are generalizing. It is usually only a couple or few that are actually hard-working people, but then again, I am generalizing because I do not know, I do not wish to actually claim to know.

Fair, I appreciate the call-out and it's a valid one.

> Judging by your comments, e.g. "you should be ashamed" (for simply expressing his dislike of YOUR community), you sound exactly like a zealot.

It's not that. I said he should be ashamed because he doubled down on generalizing. Even said he usually does that a lot. To me if you work in tech you should be more analytical and more unforgiving towards your own assessments. We all thought the bug is in X but it turned it was in Y, right? That's what I called out.

As you yourself pointed out, we don't truly know much people in the community are generally nice and hard-working, which I agree is an accurate call for a balanced take.

My problem is the outright negative generalization. I was in the mood and didn't leave him alone about it. He eventually seems to have admitted that he only demonstrated his own anecdotal evidence. I disengaged at that point because that's a valid way to exit a discussion... though I still would worry what kind of people he communicated with if he had such an overwhelming negative experience, and only with its most lunatic members to boot.

You are free to think of me as a zealot but I'd think that's an emotional and unfair reaction and would ask you to revise it. My comments were not a stubborn push-back, but a call to being objective.

> Why do you feel the need to claim moral superiority and tell someone to be ashamed just for simply expressing their dislike of your community? And while we are at it, he probably dislikes the community because of people like you. We have gone full circle.

I claimed analytical superiority, not a moral one. I've met Rust zealots. I've met Golang and (oh boy are they MANY) C/C++ zealots. Even my favorite Elixir has some weird people that think everything should be written with it.

The difference between me and the poster you seem to defend a bit emotionally is that I don't claim my outlier negative experiences are the norm. He did that. I did not.

As for the full circle thing: I ain't giving the other cheek. I don't owe grace to people who are rudely generalizing. I am aware many people would assess me much better if I just gave the other cheek. I know. But I choose not to abide by those expectations. Sadly this leads to people like yourself branding me like a zealot. Regrettable. But it's ultimately your loss for missing out on interesting and informed and unbiased discussions with me.

Feel free to check my comment history. I am not always super level-headed but I always look for the truth.

> Sounds condescending as well, but this is a minor nitpick. :)

Couldn't resist, admittedly. See above. ;)

[johnisgood]

He should be ashamed because he does not like your community?

[pdimitar]

No. He should be ashamed because he generalizes, realizes it, admits it and doubles down on it. That's not objective. That's just being stubborn. I can get those kinds of opinions in the local bar. I come to HN for higher-quality discussions.

And it's not "my" community. I don't belong to a single one so I don't emotionally defend any of them.