The article isn't wrong, but the focus on Rust is misleading. It isn't a Rust thing. It's a programmer thing, particular an open source programmer thing. Try

The article isn't wrong, but the focus on Rust is misleading. It isn't a Rust thing. It's a programmer thing, particular an open source programmer thing. Try looking at some of the Python libraries, like Spyne, that rely heavily on introspection some time. Or even React. JSX is accepted not, but at one time mixing HTML and Javascript sounded like a proposal to make a petroleum milkshake. It's happens in every language. The C obstrufication contest makes an artform out of it. I think that's apt, and honest. Many open source projects are a form of art. People create to art say something about themselves. What better way so say how inventive you are, than to find a novel way to use the programming language? I'm guilty of it myself. But once I got it out of my system and look back, I have to agree with the author. While these novel constructions are fun to create, that are pain in the arse for others to learn and even worse to maintain. I don't think that Rust encourages it any more than any other language. The author should try looking at the sins Lisp's macro's and Python's meta classes enabled. Well, except for Rust's macro's. I suspect creative use of Rust's macro's would make the C obfuscation contest look like kindergarten artwork.