3 ms·

Bringing up Rust as an obvious alternative is not toxic.

• ifwinterco 8mo ago
  There's already a stereotype that Rust people will just carpet bomb any discussion with aggressively promoting Rust, people expect it to happen at this point and it just annoys people. So I think it probably meets the threshold of "toxic", but more importantly - it's not effective. Everyone and their dog has already heard of Rust, aggressive proselytising is not going to help drive Rust adoption, it's just pissing people off
  • nottorp 8mo ago
    It's probably the same people who were proselitysing blockchain and now are proselytising "AI"?
    • ifwinterco 8mo ago
      I think that's more of a financial grift in a lot of cases (how many pie-eyed AI evangelists turn out to be running some "AI startup" or otherwise have skin in the game). The rust thing is more like actual religious evangelism, like having Jehovah's Witnesses knocking on the door. They have seen the light and you haven't
• hu3 8mo ago
  it's toxic because of how it sometimes materializes: - predictable - incessant - with belittling/reductionist/arrogant/elitist/combative phrasings - handwaving rust shortcomings and tradeoffs