I've looked at ilovecaching's comment history (at least up to ~60 days ago) and they seem consistent on being a networking programmer who uses C++. Was there a particular comment you found which would indicate this isn't the truth?
why would you make me do this? you can doxx people on your own dime... still, for posterity:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18328964 "...now I am working full time as a Rust developer"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18310666 "As a long time Erlang developer..."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18265199 "As someone who has worked two jobs now writing, deploying, and operating Erlang clusters, I recommend switching to Rust."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18251478 "Becoming a professional Haskell and Erlang developer really shifted my view on OOP"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18185795 "I've been using Rust in production for a little over half a year, and my team and I have run into very few issues. [...] We're all extremely glad we chucked C++ and Go and switched to Rust. "
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18171917 "I am exclusively using Go and Rust at home and at work, and I find myself equally productive in both."
you get the point.
1) rust genuinely is a great language and his opinion in the comment is something I have as a professional c++ programmer or the past
2) his comment history is only suspicious and only mildly, there's nothing outright contradictory. I would give him the benefit of doubt.
For example, in the same comment that begins with "As a long time Erlang developer", they later continue: "I’m more optimistic about Rust ... We’ve been able to scale Rust to handle the same load as our Erlang cluster". So there's no contradiction here.