I don't think it's fair to call criticism flaming, and I think the article and most of this thread are being critical, and fair, again not flaming. I'll grant y

I don't think it's fair to call criticism flaming, and I think the article and most of this thread are being critical, and fair, again not flaming. I'll grant you that the tone of the article was harsh, but it's a fair criticism (IMO). The Rust community is one that generally is extremely supportive of new users, even when those users are very pissed off at the steep learning curve with lifetimes, etc. It's impressive to see some of the even handed responses to questions. Reiterating what others have said, no one is saying C++ is dead, no one is saying that C++ won't be around for a very long time. What people I think are saying in general is; if what you want is a memory safe, data race safe, strongly typed (with ergonomics) language, Rust is a great one. It's got lots of really nice modern semantics, and comes at the same performance cost as C++ (in general). It's like a Tesla vs. an awesome classic Ferrari; no one wants that Ferrari to die crashing out a window, in fact any car lover wants to see that thing continue to get a lot of love and work to maintain it. But maybe there's a nice car that would be better to drive day in and day out, so that you don't have to worry as much about a parking attendant taking if for a joy ride.