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I agree with these points but as someone that has been using rust for a long time now, this “you can’t do that, it is not good” attitude got very stale by now.

• ordu 2y ago
  I can agree that rustaceans are tiring sometimes, for example, their rejection of unsafe code goes too far. I believe, it is better to learn how to wield this beast and learn how to use it to make code better. But I keep my thoughts to myself, because rustaceans will jump to explain me that I conform to the opinion of the majority and to avoid unsafe at all costs. Yes, it is not a good for the community. But this specific case is not like that, my issue with the headline that it is a clickbait, and the article is written in a way, that you can't detect it early. > anyone should do what they want in the end including saying this I disagree. Any community, any group, any society has some rules, that exist for the good of the group. One of the most frequent rules is "do not lie". The headline de facto lies about the content of the article. I was mislead by it, and I'd bet that the most of rustaceans were misled also. Moreover, it seems to me, that it was a conscious manipulation by the author. Manipulation is also for the most groups of people is a bad thing, even if it doesn't rely on lies. It is bad not just for rustaceans. Here on HN you can see complaints about clickbaity titles very often, people are really annoyed by them. I'm relatively tolerant to clickbaits, but this was too much.