[darkwater]

In this very comments section: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47193361

"all others languages are flawed, Rust is the only that stands the scrutiny" sounds pretty evangelist to me.

[josephg]

Sure; there's one or two unbalanced, positive comments about rust in this thread. Does that seem out of balance to you, out of 113 comments?

If there was a post about Go, Kotlin or C#, I bet there'd be a few glowing positive comments about the languages. I'd be surprised if there weren't.

Is that a problem? I don't want to move the goal posts, but this really doesn't seem like the problem its made out to be. I count far more comments complaining about rust evangelists than I see actual rust evangelism. Even in a thread about rust being a good tool.

What gives?

[lioeters]

I think it's that the few enthusiastic fans make such hyperbolic statements, they create drama and stand out among the majority of reasonable users of the language. They attract attention of the people who are curious about the language, and give the impression that the community is hyping it up too much.

The other day I saw a developer who works on the Rust language saying, please tone it down because it's making us look like fanatics. It's healthy to acknowledge that the language is not perfect, it has room to improve, even some fundamental flaws. Oh, I recognize your user name, recently read a great article you wrote - here it is. This was really informative and interesting.

Rewriting Rust - https://josephg.com/blog/rewriting-rust/