alt Hacker News> I will maintain that it is absolutely alright to just dislike a programming language for any reason and those reasons if they exist outside of aesthetics don't have to be well formed or technical.
I too am just one guy on HN but when I go to certain threads, I do expect no emotional and preference comments because I want to fill up my blind spots and emerge better educated. Obviously that does not mandate anything from you but since we are expressing preferences, that's mine.
RE: the rest, I am trying to understand your POV but can't. Is your issue with the difference between GPL and whatever Rust is licensed under?
That I could somewhat understand. But your rather emotionally loaded language against Rust itself I simply cannot and will not take seriously. Apparently Rust has an unique talent to tick people off on HN would be my tongue-in-cheek conclusion here because it has been years since I saw what we might call a "zealot fiercely arguing in favor of Rust" here, so the reason should be somewhere else.
Feel free to elaborate on that, though I am fairly sure such a discussion would not go anywhere. Emotion resents reason; emotion just wants to express itself.
But I do get weirded out how many people treat Rust like it's coming to eat their kids and puppies.
I laid out three examples of issues I have with Rust in a sibling comment (which I can never remember how to link), those weren’t exhaustive, merely illustrative. The Rust zealot posting (if they ever really existed) have certainly not been very present in recent years. To your final statement, for me, it is not a Rust specific issue. I would not be in favor of Scala being brought into software I use. As an example, Scala also has characteristics, semantic and syntactic that I strongly oppose and so I ‘don’t like’ the language. Other than the saying I don’t like Rust I can not think of the language above as being emotional. Maybe the communication barrier of text on HN is too much to overcome for a discussion about subjective programming language preferences.
As to your, somewhat rhetorical seeming, question about my issue pertaining to GPL vs ‘whatever Rust is licensed under”. Yes I have an issue regarding licensing. But it pertains primarily to LLVM in this instance. LLVM is permissive licensed vs gcc being GPL. I am firmly opposed to the core executables/artifacts of computational technology (compilers, OS, drivers, ISAs, hardware interface standards) being anything other than copyleft. However, I would be willing to adapt to a more restrictive “open source” that allowed for limiting use of software for the betterment of the whole.
If I could immediately change anything, it would be to see LLVM stripped of its importance and dominance and put all those resources into copyleft software forcing profligate consumers of technical advancement to ‘pay it forward’ if they want the product of our collective minds and effort.