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Stockholm syndrome isn't a mental illness, nor is it derigatory.

• detaro 6y ago
  Suggesting everyone using C++ isn't capable of properly evaluating it (which the comment author can clearly tell from the outside, for every use case) is "not derogatory"? (and from what I understand "Stockholm syndrome" is not classified as a medical condition because it's questioned if it actually exists as thing that can be usefully delineated, not because it wouldn't qualify) I'm certainly not claiming "C++ is perfect and everything else is useless" or "Rust doesn't stand a chance", but this "there has to be something wrong with you if you use it/ever consider it more suitable" is seriously annoying, and disappointing to see as the top comment here (even if it's not the worst pro-rust denigration of C++-users I've seen). And is damaging the chances Rust et al have in these spaces.
  • nchi3 6y ago
    Medical condition is a very different thing from a mental illness though. I'm quite sure there aren't mental _illnesses_ which last 1-2 days like Stockholm syndrome does. >Suggesting everyone using C++ isn't capable of properly evaluating it (which the comment author can clearly tell from the outside, for every use case) is "not derogatory"? I see it more as "I wonder if they have given other languages a chance?". There's definitely a lot of C++ devs who aren't giving for example Rust a try, and don't see the negatives of C++ because they haven't experienced anything else lately. If anything, it was derogatory towards C++, not the devs.
    • detaro 6y ago
      "Stockholm syndrome" suggests a lot more "aren't mentally capable of" than "wonder if they have". And the answer to the question "I wonder if any C++ developer has ever given other languages a chance" is also a quite obviously "yes" (remember, the claim was about "all"), not "no, they never have".