Ah crap, now it's on Hacker News too. FWIW: I know this is a chaotic argument. I initially wrote it as a reply to another post on the internals rust forum, the

Ah crap, now it's on Hacker News too. FWIW: I know this is a chaotic argument. I initially wrote it as a reply to another post on the internals rust forum, then I grew long enough I thought I could make it into a blog post. This isn't a manifesto, and I didn't proof-read it against every possible objection, or try to make it perfectly neutral. I do hope it's interesting.