Yeah, the linked comment says it pretty clearly > I will say that I've never written a line of Rust in my life and certainly can't be described as representing

Yeah, the linked comment says it pretty clearly > I will say that I've never written a line of Rust in my life and certainly can't be described as representing the Rust community in any way. If this is the best example out there then it does feel like GP was arguing against a strawman. But even otherwise, please let’s acknowledge that in any large community there’s going to be a minority who are loud and rude. It doesn’t advance the conversation much to point it out. They don’t represent the whole community any more than the comment I linked to represents the whole HN community. All I can say is that whenever I’ve seen such rudeness it’s moderated out pretty quick, whether here or elsewhere.