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Comment by simion314 | Hacker News Reader

>Asinine victim-blaming

The fact the post is flagged now somehow makes me feel that Rust community can't stand anything else then praise and worship.

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It retreads the same old, tired argument that Rust developers have been disproving it for so long, i.e. "Just write good C code" or in this case "Just battle test it"

So this means it should be flagged?

Not at all, thing is, are you sure it was a Rust fanboy?

You think it was an Apple or Arch fanboy?

No, I think it was a random dude on Internet without any way to prove who did it.

Sure it is possible, someone that is not attached to Rust just decided to hide some criticism, but IMO this chance is almost Zero. At least we agree that flagging should be used only for out of scope articles or truly terrible ones like "I wrote an incomplete, undocumented,unsupported, unremarkable, buggy piece of code in Rust"

Perhaps the flagger simply put this post in the "truly terrible" category- it retreads old and tired arguments without ever introducing any new depth or nuance.

Yes, the possibility is not zero, it would be great if flagging would always ask for a reason (similar with reporting on reddit ,where you have to specify the rule that is broken and everyone could see what was flagged and why)

Though don't you think that your criteria would affect all the "X subpar re-implemented in Rust" submissions there are same thing all the time only X changes.

Sure? I didn't say anything about other submissions. I honestly don't know which ones you have in mind anyway, so anything I could say would just be a guess. :)

Nope, that is the typical conspiracy theory of hanging people on trees without proofs.

Author here.

My argument is actually that Rust cannot replace C because it's not portable enough.

I would love for Rust to be portable enough.

Gavin, I don’t know you but let me just take this opportunity to say that I think you’re an incredible person and a smart talented hacker. The idea that software maintainers do indeed have some responsibility to their users rings true and consistent with reality.

Thank you. I'm glad to know there are others that feel the same way. :)

My pleasure. Don’t let these Rust justice warriors discourage you.

I'm not a Rust user.

I flagged it because it's poorly written flamebait that doesn't add anything to the comments on the GitHub thread.

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