alt Hacker NewsI’ve been watching this debate online and in my opinion both sides are guilty. Fil is intentionally trying to be funny or at least “interesting “ when he makes his points and I, for one, enjoy his humor, which includes having a go at Rust and other languages. It seems Rust people just can’t take a little criticism, even when it comes from a clearly trolling language! Yes it’s true Rust has an escape hatch, and we’ve seen serious memory safety bugs due to unsafe Rust in the wild. Fil-C does not have one, what you post seems to be internal or even temporary stuff given the author clearly has a goal of not providing one? I would say you and others need to just relax and not treat all and every Rust criticism as an offense to you.
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Yes! I think Fil is great so far but I think as he gets a bigger audience he should, well, consider that and focus on clarity a little more than humor. You can see Andrew’s growth in that respect.
Rust folks, this whole thing is a thread about Zig’s new feature - not even a memory safety-related feature! - and we cannot spend the whole damn time talking about Rust.
Steve, even you - I don’t believe I have ever seen you say an unkind word. But have you considered that it may be unkind to have written more than half of the words on a thread about a Zig performance feature?
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> It seems Rust people just can’t take a little criticism, even when it comes from a clearly trolling language
I think this is a case of people who can dish it out but can't take it. As far as I'm concerned if you troll someone you should expect to get trolled back.
Maybe I'm just old, but I want to focus on engineering outcomes, not "trolling." If that means "can't take a joke," that's fine, but also "haha I'm just joking" is often what people use to try and hide behind their actual intentions.
I don't even work on Rust anymore, and in fact started this thread with a criticism of Rust. There are lots of good criticisms of Rust. There is a difference between "this criticism isn't good" and "every criticism is an offense."