I’m seeing more and more backlash to Rust (recently an ugly LWN comment thread on an article about uv, a python tool that only happens to be written in Rust) and I’m finding it alarming. Trying to think of another technology that suffered some backlash like that and the closest I can think of is the misguided anti-mono stuff at the turn of the century.
@pwaring I’ve seen a lot of the knee-jerk stuff, and it’s escalated beyond reactions to articles about rust, to articles adjacent to rust (like a recent uv one on LWN). I can appreciate people getting tired of the “rewrite the world” attitude, but I’m not sure that frustration should be externalised.
@fthevenet I don’t remember there being as much hype, no. The anti-mono thing was driven by misguided concern about patents iirc. People developing with mono lost enthusiasm as a result. Some pretty cool apps bit rotted, and (imho) the Linux desktop (gnome in particular) was set back years. For Rust, I get that the mania is annoying. But frankly eg oppositional comments on LWN articles (which is what prompted my toot) are as bad or worse: https://lwn.net/Articles/986540/