Many of the Rust "evangelists" thinks/behaves like Rust's guarantees are absolute and leads to
absolutely unbreakable software by default, and advocate that the language is the silver bullet combining abilities of C, C++ (depending on application) without
any of their downsides.
When you hit a limitation you really need to implement in Rust, they say "Hey, there's unsafe{}, use that". Also, they advocate that unsafe{} is equal to C/C++ in programming freedom, which is again not.
When they're reminded that reality is not like that, they get upset and defensive. This comment is a nice flag to remind this reality.
I congratulate Rust for being what it is, but it's not a silver bullet and it's not the next C or C++. It's just a very nice programming language for various applications.
Being all shiny-eyed doesn't work in CS or programming in general, and also hardware doesn't work like that (a deterministic, perfectly good behaving, spec-obeying magic box with some included smoke for higher performance).
When you hit a limitation you really need to implement in Rust, they say "Hey, there's unsafe{}, use that". Also, they advocate that unsafe{} is equal to C/C++ in programming freedom, which is again not.
When they're reminded that reality is not like that, they get upset and defensive. This comment is a nice flag to remind this reality.
I congratulate Rust for being what it is, but it's not a silver bullet and it's not the next C or C++. It's just a very nice programming language for various applications.
Being all shiny-eyed doesn't work in CS or programming in general, and also hardware doesn't work like that (a deterministic, perfectly good behaving, spec-obeying magic box with some included smoke for higher performance).