Is it? I would think they'd find it relieving that they can now write code without worrying about all the things C makes you worry about.
Now, if programmers in general were obsolete, that would be another story. 😬 That's what “AI” is trying to do, but so far, it's failing miserably.
@argv_minus_one @dadregga I don't think that's how they see it.
They see it like their whole career has been invalidated, even if that is not the case, as Rust did not exist at the beginning of their career.
This ego and pride also affects academia and PhD applications being rejected by a panel of expert where the subject of the PhD would "invalidate" all their prior research (and I am not talking about CompSci or Maths here)