> That is, nobody perceives, say, "the silver searcher" as being some sort of nefarious plot to re-write grep, but they did with ripgrep, even though that's not

> That is, nobody perceives, say, "the silver searcher" as being some sort of nefarious plot to re-write grep, but they did with ripgrep, even though that's not what it is trying to do. I have a suspicion as to why this perception exists in the C++ crowd. I don't think it's because of evangelists. C++ was that evangelized language in the early 90's, but after a period in the sun it then survived the evangelism of Java, Python, Go, and others, despite losing ground to them in general purpose tasks. And that's because all of those other languages, while being much safer than C++, came at the cost of performance or the overhead of a runtime. There was really no other language that had the expressiveness of C++ while allowing the developer to get down to the bare metal if they needed speed. The existence and growing popularity of Rust changes that calculus, and I imagine that makes certain developers who might have a lot of investment in the C++ ecosystem defensive, causing them to overreact to any perceived slight in a way that other languages simply don't provoke.