"the community" meaning one weirdo commenter you've seen on HN? Cause I can assure you no people I know in the Rust community think that way.

Personally I would really like to code some stuff in Zig if I had more time. It's not really appealing to me in many ways (like I prefer to spend a bit more on designing types for my programs and have safety guartantees), so I wouldn't probably ue it long term, but I admit stuff like comptime is interesting.

The Rust Discord is one of my favourite places on the internet. I've met so many helpful, friendly, interesting and incredibly smart people here. And this is coming from someone who's had a lot of frustrations on my rust journey, and who does evil things like use small unsafe blocks instead of bringing in dependencies - they even refused to ban me for this!

There are definitely a few loud, unpleasant voices in the rust community. But quite frankly the Rust discord was a lot more pleasant than the Zig one.

YMMV, I do have a fondness for Zig, and I honestly did find Loris's "safety coomer" comment really funny. But I've had such good experiences with rustaceans that I feel I must defend their honour every time it's besmirched like this.

bruh, zig's VP called rust users safety coomers. Its internet shitposting who cares.

source: I was there when it happened and it was GLORIOUS.

I beg your pardon