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>And that’s fine, we’re all amateurs, and sometimes we can be wrong.

I'm not an amateur. Or if I am than everyone is too since I have written software for project that would kill tens of thousands if it fails.

Other than that the vocal minority was always my opinion on Rust. A small core of true believers who decided that convincing people they should change the world is worth more than actually doing any work in Rust.

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Such a saying is what the incompetent obsessively repeat to themselves. They can't stand by the thought of people who don't need an Internet connection to program, who don't copy and paste from the fools over at StackOverflow, and the many other things they do which their betters don't.

The fools over at Reddit call some things "adulting", because the idea of growing out of childhood is so foreign to them that they'd rather make it childish too. It's the same basic disease.

> we’re all amateurs, and sometimes we can be wrong.

> Such a saying is what the incompetent obsessively repeat to themselves.

I'll take humble over arrogant.

There’s difference between being humble and insecure. Generally people who repeat that mantra are trying to guard themselves by “we’re all fools”veil from any critique.

Being humble is saying "I'm an amateur" saying "Everyone is an amateur" is the opposite of humble.

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