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>>rvz+(OP)
I’ve been using Rust for a while, and I’m so, so tired of hearing this argument.

Yes, we know. We get it. Rust is not an absolute guarantee of safety and doesn’t protect us from all the bugs. This is obvious and well-known to anyone actually using Rust.

At this point, the argument feels like some sort of ideological debate happening outside the realm of actually getting work done. It feels like any time someone says that Rust defends against certain types of safety errors, someone feels obligated to pop out of the background and remind everyone that it doesn’t protect against every code safety issue.

>>Pragma+b8
It's really weird.

I keep seeing claims that Rust users are insufferable and claim that Rust protects against everything. But, as someone who has started using Rust around 0.4, I have never seen these insufferable users.

I imagine that they lurk on some communities?

>>Yoric+bn
I believe it boils down to hasty generalization, where you only recall (or are aware of) a few particularly noisy Rust users and take them as a representative of all Rust users. This kind of stereotype is unfortunately very hard to break.