Can hardly blame people for talking about modern languages in a discussion about obsolete ones.
The point is that the issue does not involve people discussing "modern languages", just mindlessly shoehorning references to Rust into any discussion involving any application of a language which is not Rust.
I get Rust fanboys are excited about their hobby, but this sort of obsessive "when the only tool you have is a hammer" discussion is very tiring and fruitless, and only conveys a poor image of Rust's community.
No, you really don't. If you read the thread you're commenting on, you'll notice it's about C#.
The very first comment of the thread you're discussing in, and also the top post of this discussion, is, and I quote:
> It is quite interesting that most of the problems mentioned don't exist in recent version of C# on .NET Core, considering all the similarities of C# and Java. (...)
And somehow Rust fanboys parachute into the discussion to yet again talk about their hammer handling all nails and nail-like problems.
Rust is exactly as relevant here as any of those other items, but people are getting really upset about the Rust mention.
I think in a discussion that already started by comparing different performance characteristics in different languages in a VCS, it's not at all out of line to bring up the fact that another VCS is being rewritten into any particular language. It seems to me that the anti-Rust sentiment is far more disruptive and off-topic here than the mention of Rust in the first place was.