[noisem4ker]

> I didn't see C++ users jumping into Rust threads posting attacks

There absolutely are, and have been. You could say it's a reaction. I don't want to argue about who started it.

I agree with you that if the Rust community has gained such a peculiar reputation, it's also due to valid reasons.

[tempest_]

From the outside looking in most of the push back against rust seems to be of the "I am too old, never make mistakes, and don't want to learn a new thing late in my career" variety.

I have rarely seen an argument that pushes back against Rust with actual alternative solutions to the problems the rust proponents are trying to solve. It is mostly a bunch of old people letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.

[hunterpayne]

I think you got your last sentence backwards. Because reading it literally, you mean what we have now is perfect. If that's the case, switching to Rust is a waste of time.

[noisem4ker]

No, it makes sense to me. Perfect is not what we have now (as evident to everybody outside of the "skill issue" denialists) but how C/C++ or a new language could get up to par with Rust with some enhancement, and without the latter's idiosyncrasies.