> presuming that she's "completely unaware of the downsides of RAII", that the code she's writing is going to have performance problems, that she - someone who

> presuming that she's "completely unaware of the downsides of RAII", that the code she's writing is going to have performance problems, that she - someone who's actually worked on the Linux kernel! - doesn't know about a completely imagined intolerance for RAII in the kernel. And as I mentioned, he was kind of a jerk about it too. In short, and while I don't particularly like the term - he's a textbook mansplainer. The fact that he thinks Rust forces mass discards shows how little he knows about Rust. Looking at his social media, his first project with Rust was a month or two ago.