I think it would be fair if you also would disclose that you are working in Mozilla and that you are directly connected to Rust when defending it on HN.
We appreciate your concern for the integrity of the community. On the other hand, posts like this lead to flurries of offtopicness, so their cost/benefit is usually poor. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12474588 and marked it off-topic.
It's just fluff.
Please read this:
It's a basic assumption that anyone who speaks positively about a thing is biased in favor of that thing. We don't need to point out every instance of that bias because it would dominate every discussion while providing no value because it is something everyone fundamentally assumes in the first place.
And it isn't bias if you're right.
(Disclaimer: I'm working on a web based brainfuck ide/compiler/optimizer for my own amusement, and thus probably have some kind of dog in some kind of fight here?)
It is also possibly helpful if the commenter is elaborating on product that they are involved in to establish that their input is authoritative.
And not to give cause for inflated heads here :) but seriously, if you are seriously interested in this space, you sh/would already know the cast of mvps and thus major contributors such as Russ Cox or Patrick Walton (et al) would not require introductions.
Then again, that'd make it easier to filter out all the uninformed/overly cynical/inflammatory posts!
To put it another way, is his argument or point invalid somehow? But then it would be invalid regardless if he worked for Mozilla or Microsoft or Google