[cheney_2004]

We do all recognize that for the last 5+ years we have been repeatedly scolded that the safest thing you could do for software was just “switch to Rust”. I personally didn’t buy it because software safety is way more complex than automatic bounds checking. But the trap was set and here we are. I look forward to seeing this being resolved and for the next generations of language platforms to learn from this and start new.

[junon]

This is very "old man yells at cloud" reductionist commentary IMO. You're conflating two things, shrouded by your pre-existing distaste for the comments a few people have made. This article is not a critique of the language but of the tooling around it. You're conflating memory safety and supply chain safety, as if to say "people told me to drive cars because they gave seatbelts, but puh, Gas still explodes. I'll take a horse, thanks."

[lelanthran]

> You're conflating two things, shrouded by your pre-existing distaste for the comments a few people have made. This article is not a critique of the language but of the tooling around it. You're conflating memory safety and supply chain safety, as if to say "people told me to drive cars because they gave seatbelts, but puh, Gas still explodes. I'll take a horse, thanks."

You're doing exactly what the other poster in a different thread above said is happening:

>>> Long ago, I remember seeing a cartoon which involved a tag-team of two people robbing a third, with A pointing a gun at C and saying "give your money to B", while B comments "I'm really just standing here, but I figure it's best if you do as he says". I'm not sure what exact piece of day-to-day politics this was made to comment on (though it was probably some or another flavour of political violence), but it seems somewhat applicable here as well. The lines just become "accept the supply chain, or suffer my public ridicule" and "I'm just providing the software 'as-is', but you probably should do as he says".

One party hurls insults at those who don't want to switch, the other party (you) is going "I'm just standing here offering the download, but you should probably do what he says".