[rixed]

In all honesty, there are three topics I try to refrain myself from engaging with on HN, often unsuccesfully: politics, religion, and rust.

I don't know what you had to go through before reaching rust's secure haven, but what you just said is true for the vast majority of compiled languages, which are legions.

[bregma]

> politics, religion, and rust

Is there a real distinction between any of those?

[quotemstr]

It's the fledging of a new generation of developers. Every time I see one of these threads I tell myself, "you, too, were once this ignorant and obnoxious". I don't know any cute except letting them get it out of their system and holding my nose as they do.

[Ar-Curunir]

Well you might find it good to learn that Rust is based on plenty of ideas dating back decades, so _your_ obnoxious and patronizing attitude is unwarranted.

[quotemstr]

Rust gets some things right and some things wrong. Its designers are generally clueful, but like all humans, fallible. But what does this discussion have to do with Rust exactly? Exactly the same considerations would apply to a C++ GC.

The only thing more cringe than insisting on a GC strategy without understanding the landscape is to interpret everything as an attack on one's favored language.