The rust evangelism strike force seems to be matched only by the rust criticism strike force - the rub of it is that once these things get started they seem to

The rust evangelism strike force seems to be matched only by the rust criticism strike force - the rub of it is that once these things get started they seem to be pretty much self-sustaining, with every Rust discussion immediately attracting two large groups, each of which are only there to argue with the other. Overall it makes everyone look bad, but certainly has the impact of making it more difficult to find reasoned discussion around Rust's advantages and shortcomings. There is a similar phenomena around Microsoft, with nearly every news item about them attracting two such camps, so this news item happens to find itself at a rather unhappy intersection! For what it's worth, as someone who's working on a first project in Rust right now, the actual Rust documentation and direct Rust community seem to be friendly and helpful. It's only in more 'neutral' discussion forums like here where most things about Rust devolve into trench warfare. I also feel that, subjectively, the core Rust communities (e.g. the rust-lang forums) are pretty honest about identifying places where Rust or its tooling currently fall short (plenty of "I don't know that there's a good way to do this right now.").