That's not a useful or constructive comment. At best it is, indeed, worthless; at worst, you're using your stature on HN to bully another commenter by implying

That's not a useful or constructive comment. At best it is, indeed, worthless; at worst, you're using your stature on HN to bully another commenter by implying that their opinion can be dismissed out of hand, because you, tptacek, say so. I don't really agree with it either - it overstates the issues with occasionally using escape hatches in Rust by implying that they're at all comparable with the problems inherent with using C. But yours was still an unnecessary reply.