TBH it's getting a bit much at this point. The rust advocates here (not sure if they're paid or just fanboys)
really need to tone it down. The hyperbole, and the constant "rust solves this unrelated problem, and has no flaws!" is beginning to grate.
I've coded in it a bit and it seems like cool language, they get a lot right and have some new and interesting ideas. But it's not a panacea (or indeed "salvation" as one recent blog post put it) for everything wrong in software. We don't need to all immediately re-write everything we do rust. Not everything new needs to be written in rust. And your re-writes of programs that have already been written in other languages and work well aren't that compelling.
If you like rust, then write some new, interesting and useful software in the language, where what language it's written in isn't the main selling point. For example, I love the look of this http://nickel.rs/.
TL;DR - the corrosive nature of rust advocates on HN is starting to eat away at my patience, and I am tired of having to galvanize against them and their absurd claims.
I've coded in it a bit and it seems like cool language, they get a lot right and have some new and interesting ideas. But it's not a panacea (or indeed "salvation" as one recent blog post put it) for everything wrong in software. We don't need to all immediately re-write everything we do rust. Not everything new needs to be written in rust. And your re-writes of programs that have already been written in other languages and work well aren't that compelling.
If you like rust, then write some new, interesting and useful software in the language, where what language it's written in isn't the main selling point. For example, I love the look of this http://nickel.rs/.
TL;DR - the corrosive nature of rust advocates on HN is starting to eat away at my patience, and I am tired of having to galvanize against them and their absurd claims.