Gregory's Server@cwebber someone pointed out to me recently that a big reason as to why rust evangelists are all super irritating is because a significant number of them are also cryptocurrency grifters and it's poisoned their community norms and now I can't unsee it
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aeva
@fl0_id @cwebber I can unfortunately count on one hand the number of people I've had deep thoughtful conversations about the language, and those conversations all have to happen in private because of the scores and scores and scores of assholes who have to butt in on every little detail to evangelize. Don't tell try to minimize the problem, you wont endear me to your point of view by telling me everything I've seen with my own eyes somehow isn't real.
aeva
@fl0_id @cwebber but you are probably correct on your second point, which is that all of those people are going to move on to the next Next Big Thing once rust loses its luster. Right now rust's community feels a lot like how things were with Haskell about 8 or so years ago. Lots of master debaters proselyting. It almost feels like they all jumped for rust at some point. Maybe that's what happened to go, too.
aeva
@fl0_id @cwebber digression aside, this a "a few bad apples spoils the bunch" type of situation, because everyone who puts up with it eventually internalizes it and starts doing it. You see friends get hooked by it and start posting self righteous opinions. I've been harassed by people I thought were friends just by thinking aloud about evolving my own C++ application design philosophy to be more resilient to memory safety bugs. |
@aeva @cwebber there are some of them, but overall they are quite a small part of the community. You could also say the same thing about go though tjete seems to be less excitement/evangelizing left about that I guess?