Since the migration from setuptools -> poetry -> uv -> full Rust, I think my computer burns up less energy (not to mention all the CI/CD pipelines) from running slow tools over and over. So that's a win for Rust there.

The point they were making sarcastically is that this, doesn’t.

> great Rust is (which it is)

They just took undefined behaviour and called it unsafe. Theyve not really solved anything. Even their own std lib has security bugs in unsafe code.

And their only ever retort is "there are thousands of these bugs a day in c code"... Let's wait until rust gets used seriously in the systems and embedded space first, no point comparing c to minnows like rust when it comes to total cves.

Because it's more fun?

Being serious this is a silly line of reasoning. Maybe they are both bad? It's like asking why is it bad to light a forest fire when there is a forest fire already burning.

I take issue with the cognitive dissonance too though. HN became very hostile to Bitcoin but took no issue with people gaming on PCs and consoles that were consuming more and more electricity each year. Now everyone is silent on all fronts because LLMs make their job easy and gives them something new and interesting to play with.