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As a guy planning to use SQLite with Rust, it was interesting to me since you often don't have visibility on the performance cost when you cross the C-Rust barr

As a guy planning to use SQLite with Rust, it was interesting to me since you often don't have visibility on the performance cost when you cross the C-Rust barrier, or other FFI bridges. You have to write the code at which point it's a 70% done deal. Plus the top comment gave useful additional data. This saves time for other people looking to make an informed decision. --- People disliking Rust seem to always be on the lookout for the Boogeyman to me. And degrading the quality of HN's comment sections. :( Just look at your other replies. Seems that several people got lost on their way to 4chan and Reddit.

trollied 4y ago
I don't dislike Rust, I'm trying to understand the blind upvotes that seem to regularly happen. You don't see "with $OTHERLANGUAGE" in the majority of post titles. RE my posts, I'm old. I ask questions, I challenge things I think are wrong. I also praise. This is normal interaction, rather than blind cargo cult following.
- pdimitar 4y ago
  Every community has bad apples. I've worked with hardcore Rust devs and they hate the cargo culting as well. What ticks me off is that people single out Rust and that's very visible. Go criticize C/C++ legacy baggage and you'll get a very different engagement. Say something about Python and Golang. Very different responses. At this point and to me, as a mostly indifferent side observer, people negatively overreact if Rust is praised -- and only cite a bunch of loonies that even the Rust devs and core contributors dislike. Does not seem like a fair and objective assessment to me. As techies we should be much better than that. Merit before bias and all that.
- bjornasm 4y ago
  How do you know all the others are "blind cargo cult following"? Maybe is it that people that frequent Hacker News are interested in Rust, and as Rust is in the wind a lot of content is made about Rust, which again means that a lot of content is upvoted. I don't think it means its anything nefarious. A new language can get a lot of hype, a lot of hype means a lot of content. (I say this as someone who haven't done any Rust other than looking at some intro exercises a bit over a year ago).
- voidfunc 4y ago
  Eh this has happened before on HN. I remember when it was "with Ruby" or "with Go". Just move on. Rust will pass eventually into the realm of boring and it will be "with Fooboz" or something

trollied 4y ago

I don't dislike Rust, I'm trying to understand the blind upvotes that seem to regularly happen. You don't see "with $OTHERLANGUAGE" in the majority of post titles. RE my posts, I'm old. I ask questions, I challenge things I think are wrong. I also praise. This is normal interaction, rather than blind cargo cult following.

pdimitar 4y ago
Every community has bad apples. I've worked with hardcore Rust devs and they hate the cargo culting as well. What ticks me off is that people single out Rust and that's very visible. Go criticize C/C++ legacy baggage and you'll get a very different engagement. Say something about Python and Golang. Very different responses. At this point and to me, as a mostly indifferent side observer, people negatively overreact if Rust is praised -- and only cite a bunch of loonies that even the Rust devs and core contributors dislike. Does not seem like a fair and objective assessment to me. As techies we should be much better than that. Merit before bias and all that.
bjornasm 4y ago
How do you know all the others are "blind cargo cult following"? Maybe is it that people that frequent Hacker News are interested in Rust, and as Rust is in the wind a lot of content is made about Rust, which again means that a lot of content is upvoted. I don't think it means its anything nefarious. A new language can get a lot of hype, a lot of hype means a lot of content. (I say this as someone who haven't done any Rust other than looking at some intro exercises a bit over a year ago).
voidfunc 4y ago
Eh this has happened before on HN. I remember when it was "with Ruby" or "with Go". Just move on. Rust will pass eventually into the realm of boring and it will be "with Fooboz" or something