In real life I've noticed most low level people think rust is silly or uninteresting.
---I for one think its nice and memory leaks are bigger problem than thought, I also don't think C++ will be able to fix.<p>----However the proselytizing of rusters, notably on reddit.....Sometimes I just want to create a big fat noodle nest C++ program with raw pointers thats so fast and unconstrained that memory leaks into mainstream vernacular.<p>Think about the nested loops with no memory deallocation, circular data structures with self-referential pointers. Memory leaks so big the rusters won't have any bandwidth left to give sermons about lifetimes and rewrites and other non-secular talk.
So much speed and no cargo to hold me down.
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It's important to remember three facts about mass-market anonymous forums such as Reddit:<p>* There is no way to know whether someone who claims to be a user of Rust actually has much experience with Rust, or has even used it. It is common for people to intentionally write antagonistic posts pretending to be member of a group they dislike.<p>* There is nothing stopping a single motivated person from posting from multiple accounts. The only limit to post throughput is how quickly text can be written (or copy-pasted, or generated).<p>* People who are most likely to be considered experts in their field (due to talent, experience, intelligence, etc) probably have jobs and/or hobbies, so online forums are mostly filled with posts from people who would never be considered an expert if you met them in real life.<p>If you want to know what active users of a language think, find specific named individuals and follow them. For Rust, I've found most active users to be <i>very</i> experienced in C/C++ -- the opinion of someone who's spent 20 years as a professional software engineer writing aeronautic firmware is far more signal-ful than that of the typical teenager, and such people <i>do not</i> spend time on contemporary Reddit.