I don't think the issue was that you made a connection to Rust. The issue seems to be that you used it as an excuse to rant about a tangent with an aggressive t

I don't think the issue was that you made a connection to Rust. The issue seems to be that you used it as an excuse to rant about a tangent with an aggressive tone in article that will attract proponents of the target of your rant. In other words, it didn't devolve into a flamewar, because that's where you started it out.