I, too, have not encountered these toxic Rust fanboys. I don't believe my head is in the sand. I do regularly see people degrading Rust and it's community, and so am convinced these toxic Rust fanboys are largely a myth based on uncharitable interpretations of otherwise reasonable statements. I think people often read "I advocate for the deprecation of all C/C++ codebases" into the statement "Rust is a 'safe' language, for a certain meaning of that term," but I don't think it's actually common to advocate for such a deprecation outside of security-critical applications.
I feel like it's a defensive reaction, that people feel like Rust is seeking to obviate arcane skills they've built over the course of their careers. Which I don't think is true, I think there will always be a need for such skills and that Rust has no mission to disrupt other language communities, but I can understand the reaction.
> You can even look in my comment history
Is this the thread you're referring to?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32878868
Because I genuinely don't see what you're talking about. No one seems to "make it their mission" and no one seems to be arguing for Rust in particular, as much as this category of languages.
I feel like it's a defensive reaction, that people feel like Rust is seeking to obviate arcane skills they've built over the course of their careers. Which I don't think is true, I think there will always be a need for such skills and that Rust has no mission to disrupt other language communities, but I can understand the reaction.
> You can even look in my comment history
Is this the thread you're referring to?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32878868
Because I genuinely don't see what you're talking about. No one seems to "make it their mission" and no one seems to be arguing for Rust in particular, as much as this category of languages.