Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by quotemstr 246 days ago
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.
1 comments

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.
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.