Yes. I was thinking of this: > If you do an experiment and say "C++" anywhere on the Internet, in a minute someone will chime in and educate you about the exis

Yes. I was thinking of this: > If you do an experiment and say "C++" anywhere on the Internet, in a minute someone will chime in and educate you about the existence of Rust. > I know examples when engineers rewrite code from Rust in Rust if they like to rewrite everything in Rust. > our engineers become too nauseous from Rust poisoning > So now they [Rust devs] can write something other than new versions of old terminal applications. > someone shows PRQL, everyone else thinks "What a wonderful idea, and, also, Rust" and gives this project a star on GitHub. This is, by the way, how most of Rust projects get their stars on GitHub. It doesn't look like someone wants to use this language, but what we want is to ride the hype. > we started to understand that it would be hard to get rid of Rust, and we could tolerate it. It's a very shitty attitude and not even accurate. You see this attitude from old C/C++ devs quite a lot, it's just very weird that he has that attitude and then also seems to be simultaneously quite keen to use Rust. Very weird! Anyway those are just the non-technical things. On the technical side: > Fully offline builds They solved it by vendoring but this is the obvious solution and also applies to C++. > Segfault in Rust They tried to do a null-terminated read of a string that wasn't null-terminated. Nothing to do with Rust. That would be an error in C++ too. In fact this is a strong argument for Rust. > Panic C/C++ code aborts. Or more commonly it crashes in a very difficult to debug way. I'll take panics any day. > Sanitizers require nightly Ok fair enough but this seems relatively minor. > Rust's OpenSSL links with the system library by default and you have to set an environment variable to statically link it. They set the environment variable. Frankly this is a million times easier than doing the same thing in C++. I'll stop there, but overall it seems like a lot of "this is a problem we had with Rust" where it should really be more like "this is something we had to do when using C++ with Rust". Weird vibe anyway.