I don't want this to be either a flamewar or stupid. The Rust community has a strong commitment to be welcoming and inclusive, and this means we try very hard t

I don't want this to be either a flamewar or stupid. The Rust community has a strong commitment to be welcoming and inclusive, and this means we try very hard to discourage bashing other languages (who could want to join a community that is constantly talking trash about the language they work in every day?). Despite this, a meme has been spreading, mainly among C programmers, that the Rust community does go around bashing other languages. This meme harms the work our community is doing and is not supported by evidence. Also, I find the criticism of C you responded to quite valid, not "talking smack." It is a problem with C that it has several basic functions which are deprecated for security issues. This is a problem that C has much more than most other languages.