People do! But not as much with C++ because it's very rare to find a C++ developer who is genuinely in love with the language and is unaware of its faults. Not

People do! But not as much with C++ because it's very rare to find a C++ developer who is genuinely in love with the language and is unaware of its faults. Not many people starting new C++ codebases today unless they feel they have no credible alternative choice. To a lesser extent the same is true of Rustaceans - they tend to be well aware of the constraints of their language, and won't try to defend it or pump it outside of some specific use cases. Nor do the Rust designers who are fairly humble. Nobody should be calling Go users stupid. But they typically don't. At least not here. The language itself, on the other hand ...