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> I'm starting to wonder if the Rust toxicity and evangelism are more meme than reality.

Doubtful. If you're running a somewhat known FOSS C or C++ project, chances are you've had to close issues from Rust fanatics aggressively urging you for a rewrite, and shaming you if you object. Nothing has changed in that regard.

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I do, and I haven't.

I'm glad you've been spared. That doesn't really negate all the negativity and outright harassment that lots of people have experienced with the Rust community.

I think the best example is the continuous vandalization of cppreference [0][1]. I've never seen such behavior from another language community. There's also continuous mocking/brigading campaigns organized on reddit and mastodon.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36349576

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Cplusplus/comments/14aiwqj/cpprefer...

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