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by dmitrygr·9y ago·view on hn ↗
Software is almost a perfectly open market. If proponents of rust really think their preferred language is better in every way, they are free to rewrite the world in rust, and see the adoption numbers they get. After all, if rust is better in every way, we'd expect the adoption numbers to go up for their rust OS, with a rust http stack and rust web browser. Right?

Telling others to use their language instead of putting their money where their mouth is is truly what irks me about the rust community the most.

Want a rust world? Go write it and ship it.

Oh, and you don't get to complain about C until your PC runs more rust than C

Cool?

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I'm not sure why I can't complain about problems I have today -- if nobody complained about C ever, I doubt Rust, Go or for that matter, basically any other language project, would have ever gotten started.

It's okay to identify flaws in tools, that's how we make them better. It doesn't make sense to say '[car on fire] you can't complain about that Honda Civic until you develop your own better car, sir, and more people are driving it than not, now please leave the service center -- until then consider the fire normal'.

I don't think the majority of Rust users disagree.