1. I've written, at most, 10,000 lines of Rust. Calling me "the Rust community" is quite a stretch. 2. For comparison, I've almost certainly crossed the millio

1. I've written, at most, 10,000 lines of Rust. Calling me "the Rust community" is quite a stretch. 2. For comparison, I've almost certainly crossed the million lines of C mark years ago--if anything, I'm the C community. 3. You and I remember very different things about the C++ community. In fact, I also remember a number of other languages being offered as alternatives to C over the years including some obvious ones like Pascal or Basic, and also including some real absurdities like Lua (nothing wrong with Lua, but it's really not for the same kinds of projects as C). The idea that comparing your language to C is some sort of new phenomenon, is flat wrong. 4. You're ascribing a lot of intent to me bringing up Rust which isn't there. I'm not trying to derail the discussion--if you want to talk about C, do it. 5. The idea that the Rust community is threatened by C is a bit bizarre.