> With Rust I've been on the other side of that exchange, too. That is really the only region of Stack Overflow where I've seen the pedantry and unhelpfulness t

> With Rust I've been on the other side of that exchange, too. That is really the only region of Stack Overflow where I've seen the pedantry and unhelpfulness that others complain about---mostly from one person actually. And I wonder how many people have given up on Rust because of bad experiences there. You're not wrong! I almost gave up on learning Rust when I saw all the belittling answers on Stack Overflow. It particularly seemed common to see SO pages of the form: - Q: How do I do [thing X that Rust doesn't do well yet] in Rust? - A: You're doing it wrong! Write better code! You're only trying to do X because you're sloppy. And then thing X would actually become possible in Rust, because the language keeps getting better, but the SO page would remain, implying that only bad programmers do this thing that works in Rust and that you want to do. Fortunately, I've realized that this guy on SO doesn't represent the Rust community. The community on Reddit is pretty good, and on the Gitter, there are people who are happy to answer even simple questions that have been asked before.