Were they actual personal attacks, or just criticism of the code?
If you can't accept legitimate criticism of your work, that shows a real lack of maturity.
(The article didn't give concrete examples, so I don't know which is the case here.)
> "seriously? Please just stop writing Rust. You do not respect semver, you do not respect soundness, so why are you using a language predominantly based around doing these things right?"
This is what I was thinking of when I wrote "far, far over the line."
Otherwise if that event is far far over the line I wonder what out of the blue insults or death threats qualify as.
Just about any thread on HN regarding any aspect of systemd or Google will have comments which are much more vitriolic.
Do you not see how that is (a) not related to the project and (b) rude in any context?
If you were, say, singing karaoke and someone came up to you and said "you're awful, never sing again, you're off-key, you don't know the words"... Is that not rude to you?
I don't claim to know much about either karaoke or rust, but from what little I know of both, that seems wrong. The Rust community expects safe code, while bad singing is expected at karaoke bars.
The comparison was about how to communicate respectfully and appropriately, not about making an perfect analogy.
Think of it this way then: it is completely possible for the Rust community to expect safe code without being entitled assholes about how they communicate that expectation.