[saagarjha]

Bringing up Rust as an obvious alternative is not toxic.

[ifwinterco]

There's already a stereotype that Rust people will just carpet bomb any discussion with aggressively promoting Rust, people expect it to happen at this point and it just annoys people.

So I think it probably meets the threshold of "toxic", but more importantly - it's not effective. Everyone and their dog has already heard of Rust, aggressive proselytising is not going to help drive Rust adoption, it's just pissing people off

[nottorp]

It's probably the same people who were proselitysing blockchain and now are proselytising "AI"?

[hu3]

it's toxic because of how it sometimes materializes:

- predictable

- incessant

- with belittling/reductionist/arrogant/elitist/combative phrasings

- handwaving rust shortcomings and tradeoffs