Ask HN: What do you think about rust enthusiast?

1 points by LangIsAllWeNeed 3 years ago | 1 comment

In real life I've noticed most low level people think rust is silly or uninteresting. ---I for one think its nice and memory leaks are bigger problem than thought, I also don't think C++ will be able to fix.

----However the proselytizing of rusters, notably on reddit.....Sometimes I just want to create a big fat noodle nest C++ program with raw pointers thats so fast and unconstrained that memory leaks into mainstream vernacular.

Think about the nested loops with no memory deallocation, circular data structures with self-referential pointers. Memory leaks so big the rusters won't have any bandwidth left to give sermons about lifetimes and rewrites and other non-secular talk. So much speed and no cargo to hold me down.

jmillikin 3 years ago |

  > However the proselytizing of rusters, notably on reddit

It's important to remember three facts about mass-market anonymous forums such as Reddit:

* There is no way to know whether someone who claims to be a user of Rust actually has much experience with Rust, or has even used it. It is common for people to intentionally write antagonistic posts pretending to be member of a group they dislike.

* There is nothing stopping a single motivated person from posting from multiple accounts. The only limit to post throughput is how quickly text can be written (or copy-pasted, or generated).

* People who are most likely to be considered experts in their field (due to talent, experience, intelligence, etc) probably have jobs and/or hobbies, so online forums are mostly filled with posts from people who would never be considered an expert if you met them in real life.

If you want to know what active users of a language think, find specific named individuals and follow them. For Rust, I've found most active users to be very experienced in C/C++ -- the opinion of someone who's spent 20 years as a professional software engineer writing aeronautic firmware is far more signal-ful than that of the typical teenager, and such people do not spend time on contemporary Reddit.