one more cloudflare/unwrap adjacent thought, meta about discourse
It is deeply unsurprising to see more problems with Rust as adoption increases. That *on it's own* doesn't even contradict the claim that Rust eliminates one class of bugs and offers tools to help with other classes. Evidence against that claim would be an example of a *pattern* of failures in and exacerbated by Rust, possibly formulated as a collection of anecdotes. But we aren't seeing that, so far as I'm aware.
I don't think Rust is perfect. It and its community have significant problems. But it's the first language I've seen that's a strong counter to the use of C and C++ as extreme gatekeeping.
And no, I don't apologize for the informed and reasoned opinion that C and C++ are bad languages that are promoted primarily on the basis of keeping people out of software development.
As always I can be wrong on that, I'm just one ornery woman on the Internet. But it's not an opinion I've come to lightly.
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