> I'm curious how one could say "Hey, I like this language it does a lot of things well and fixes problems I see in other languages" without sounding like a sno

> I'm curious how one could say "Hey, I like this language it does a lot of things well and fixes problems I see in other languages" without sounding like a snob. Just not writing “Feel free to create and use languages with invisible program effects or asynchrony, and I'll feel free to not pay any attention when you do.” would do the trick in this case. Or, generally, show your reasoning, show your arguments, acknowledge any tradeoffs, contextualize against other languages as needed. And perhaps do not jump into every programming language discussion with “this wouldn't be an issue with Rust” unprompted, as that's generally not constructive, and does not acknowledge that there is more to software engineering than just what programming language you pick.