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The Rust community always had a deep interest to sell Rust and did so through blog posts, comments and projects. I’ve seen this with many other languages on HN,

by blub 4y ago

The Rust community always had a deep interest to sell Rust and did so through blog posts, comments and projects. I’ve seen this with many other languages on HN, but the zeal with which Rust is constantly shoved in the face of everyone is a tad more irritating than what I remember about what seemed to be grassroots interest in Ruby, Haskell or Objective-C. When I read your top-level comment I don’t read a story from a random developer, I read an endorsement from a prominent member of the Rust community trying to paint Rust in a positive light, but conveniently omitting any negative aspects. This happens way too often to be a coincidence: the polite Rust developer educating others about the benefits of Rust may as well be a recurring character in this series. Yet as companies actually start to use Rust and hit various problems, these are not given the same amount of attention. Obviously you don’t care about that, but this kind of submarine advertisement is a pet peeve of mine, so don’t be surprised if I continue to comment.

burntsushi 4y ago
That is Grade-A-nonsense. So what I'm getting from your comment is that it's not possible to say something positive about a project like Rust unless all commensurate trade offs are accounted for. Otherwise, the comment is a "submarine advertisement"? I didn't pipe into a conversation about non-Rust. The OP is about Rust. The OP mentioned sum types. I commented endorsing what OP said and to call extra attention to it, because sum types (with pattern matching and exhaustiveness checking) are amazingly useful. I also legitimately do not believe they have many downsides, if any at all. They might have downsides within the context of a particular language design (for example, Go, where their interaction with default values and interfaces would potentially be quite weird). But in general, no, sum types are pretty close to an unmitigated good thing in my view. Does Rust writ large have downsides? Oh absolutely! So unless you're telling me I need to exhaustively enumerate every downside of Rust every time I mention something positive, then I don't know what you're getting on about. > so don’t be surprised if I continue to comment. That's not surprising? You've been posting low quality commentary in Rust threads for literal years. If there are people sick of the "advertising" for Rust, then there are also people who are sick of the people whinging about it. What would be surprising is if you started posting well informed productive comments in Rust topics.

by blub 4y ago

burntsushi 4y ago

That is Grade-A-nonsense. So what I'm getting from your comment is that it's not possible to say something positive about a project like Rust unless all commensurate trade offs are accounted for. Otherwise, the comment is a "submarine advertisement"? I didn't pipe into a conversation about non-Rust. The OP is about Rust. The OP mentioned sum types. I commented endorsing what OP said and to call extra attention to it, because sum types (with pattern matching and exhaustiveness checking) are amazingly useful. I also legitimately do not believe they have many downsides, if any at all. They might have downsides within the context of a particular language design (for example, Go, where their interaction with default values and interfaces would potentially be quite weird). But in general, no, sum types are pretty close to an unmitigated good thing in my view. Does Rust writ large have downsides? Oh absolutely! So unless you're telling me I need to exhaustively enumerate every downside of Rust every time I mention something positive, then I don't know what you're getting on about. > so don’t be surprised if I continue to comment. That's not surprising? You've been posting low quality commentary in Rust threads for literal years. If there are people sick of the "advertising" for Rust, then there are also people who are sick of the people whinging about it. What would be surprising is if you started posting well informed productive comments in Rust topics.