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100 languages and yet not a single use of Rust. The omission feels like a statement.

It's hard to make me hate something I've never engaged with and yet the Rust community has managed to do it with their overzealous love.

It's a language guys. It won't give you a BJ

I went on LinkedIn this morning and I saw four posts from people talking about how good Rust was compared to other languages and then a bunch of comments from people with crab emojis in their names. Four. Its community is insanely cult like, I have never come across it before (maybe some Lisp-evangelicals, but they are individuals and not entire groups).

> I went on LinkedIn this morning and I saw four posts from people talking about how good Rust was compared to other languages and then a bunch of comments from people with crab emojis in their names. Four.

What a shame! Enthusiasm of all things. How dare they! Right in your LinkedIn feed! Not to worry though -- a little Java should snuff it right out though.

It's not enthusiasm over something they love. It's enthusiasm about how their thing is so much better than your thing.

It gets old.

I don't mind enthusiasm, but it's the way it's written so condescendingly of other languages. And you know it's just thinly veiled marketing to sell something (either a course, their services, etc).

> I don't mind enthusiasm, but it's the way it's written so condescendingly of other languages.

I don't know what was said, but I will say, a programming language is a tool in the toolbox. If a professional says "My Milwaukee power saw is better than anything Dewalt or Ryobi make", that's simply an opinion about a tool. No reason to take it personally if you like Dewalt.

Rust does have some downsides, and I think it is better to focus on those than any language culture war, if you choose to vetch. As in -- I think saying things like "Rust makes certain large refactors more difficult" is much better than low grade whining about the Rust Evangelism Strike Force.

> And you know it's just thinly veiled marketing to sell something (either a course, their services, etc).

Welcome to LinkedIn!

It's the "my language is better" that irks, i.e, a judgemental enthusiasm.

To be more inclusive, consider using “it won’t go down on you” rather than “won’t give you a BJ”

I have always heard both terms used interchangeably ignoring gender. Maybe you need to broaden your own limited horizons instead of claiming others need to be more inclusive.

It won't give anyone a BJ. Independent of if they could hypothetically receive one or not.

Which sort of proves the point that there aren’t really any tolerable or normal people using Rust.

Poe's Law gold right here!

Yeah their comment struck me as a joke more than a real critique lmao. But I wasn't sure so I made my reply a joke.

not every comment needs to be inclusive

> using a different--and, ideally, new to me--language for each problem

Perhaps this is why?

Ah I missed that part, thank you. The omission comment was tongue-in-cheek on my part.

The author wanted to use languages that were new to them, if the author has enough familiarity with rust to have a vendetta then it probably isn't new to them.

No C++. No C#. No Java. No JS. No Lua. No Brainfuck.

No Go. What makes this project impressive is how he avoided nearly all of the most popular mainstream languages in favour of eg COBOL and XSLT(!).

No German too. But, still, very impressive. That's a talent.

no php!

No Brainfuck is actually surprising. I missed that.

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