As always, Venn diagram of "people with extremely pointless gripes about the Rust language" and "people who compare the slightest criticism to being accused of thoughtcrime" is a circle.
That's not to say everyone who dislikes Rust is like this. I have plenty of gripes about Rust. Just the people who say things like "if you use a refcount and make a cycle, you can leak memory, oh noez".
Some seem to interpret the very existence of other people's ideas and especially what they perceive as an emerging consensus as a threat to their autonomy? I don't understand but I do observe it. I feel like what people actually take issue with is the existence of Rust and with people talking about it, and so they complain about how often it's on the front page, or they'll complain that it's in the title of the post, etc. But I feel like the root cause here is that they want it to go away, because it's existence bothers them.
