To me it seems like you are passing a different line, into downright anti-rust hysteria, as if it is some sort of taboo to talk positively about it, or argue ab

To me it seems like you are passing a different line, into downright anti-rust hysteria, as if it is some sort of taboo to talk positively about it, or argue about its merits. Your earlier comment, that his advocacy passes into parody, also seems silly to me. Perhaps you don't believe Rust's merits, and that's fine. Perhaps you don't believe the grandparent, and that's fine too. But either way, his argument was fair. Edit: I later realized that my comment is mostly just an attack that doesn't really add anything to this thread. I apologize for that. To add something to it, I'd just like to second that Rust is indeed very easy to write after learning to deal with the borrow checker. Much, much easier than C, and I say that with 15 years of writing various applications in C (with all of the autotools rituals, pthreads, Glib gobject nonsense, GTK/GDK/cairo, etc). I had a fun little code battle with a colleague, and here's a comparison of Rust [1] vs Python [2]. Although Rust is certainly nowhere near as readable as Python, it was just as easy to write, due to the type-system saving on debugging/learning time. [1] https://gist.github.com/andreivasiliu/a4a2a6007d1659799b1f8057e264a61d https://gist.github.com/andreivasiliu/a4a2a6007d1659799b1f80... [2] https://gist.github.com/lemon24/252ee6aa122a2b38395b096f96cb8e26 https://gist.github.com/lemon24/252ee6aa122a2b38395b096f96cb...